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This week, I'm sitting down with YouTube expert and entrepreneur Aleric Heck for a deep dive into the strategies that drive real business results with video. Aleric returns to share his latest YouTube playbook, explain how to actually convert views into clients, and reveal powerful approaches to leveraging content across multiple platforms. Whether you’re brand new to YouTube or ready to maximize your results, you’ll get actionable and confidence-boosting advice throughout this conversation.

Topics Discussed

• The Enduring Value of YouTube: Why YouTube continues to deliver unmatched opportunity for businesses, creators, and educators—even as digital landscapes shift.
• How the Algorithm Has Evolved: Insight into YouTube’s current “meritocracy”—what gives new channels or videos a chance to break through, regardless of subscriber count.
• From Likes to Leads: Aleric explains how building true video authority, not just viral content, leads to consistent clients and revenue.
• Inside the “Video Authority” Blueprint: A breakdown of the framework found in Aleric’s new book: creating video conversion funnels, blending organic content with ads, and moving viewers to action.
• Easy Content Multiplication: How you can turn a single YouTube video into a month’s worth of omni-channel content with smart systems and AI.
• AI & Tools to Streamline Growth: Favorite apps and automations for scripting, thumbnails, targeting, and content repurposing—plus real-world examples of how they fit together.
• Overcoming Creator Bottlenecks: Tips for getting comfortable on camera, simplifying production, and staying authentic in your content.
• Effective YouTube Ad Strategies: A proven formula for video ads—“Hook, Educate, Call to Action”—and advanced audience targeting using Google AI.
• Future Trends & Hybrid Approaches: Predictions on AI’s role in video marketing and the growing importance of balancing technology with the human element.

Resources Mentioned

• Video Authority (Book by Aleric Heck): http://videoauthoritybook.com/
• KeywordSearch.com: https://keywordsearch.com/
• ThumbnailCreator.com: https://thumbnailcreator.com/
• Opus Clip: https://www.opus.pro/
• Claude AI by Anthropic: https://claude.ai/
• Castmagic: https://hustleandflowchart.com/castmagic

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Is YouTube still the world's most valuable real estate?

So if every video can kinda live or die based on merit, how do you

actually package yours up to win?

And also can a two minute video ad really beat out a 20 minute video.

That goes even in more depth.

For instance, we're gonna talk about things like, you know, what makes a hook

irresistible and what comes after that hook to actually lead someone to become

not just another like or a comment, but an actual client for your business.

That's what we're breaking down today in this episode with Allic.

Heck, he's gonna share his YouTube playbook, but also

his conversion playbook.

If you actually want to use video to win and to grow your business, let's dive in.

Aleric, we're doing this, uh, round two, man.

It's been about a year or so.

How you, how you doing?

I'm excited.

This is, this is gonna be great.

Yeah.

I can't believe it's been a year.

We were just talking about that.

It, it, it time flies.

well, I mean, you're, and, and luckily, you know, you're even

deeper down the YouTube rabbit hole.

I know.

Last episode we went, uh, back into your, you know, the history of how

you, you came around on YouTube.

I think it's been, well it was 12, uh, you started at 12 years

old, I think is what it was.

Right.

And doing all the tech reviews and whatnot.

Yeah.

Yeah, exactly.

Yeah.

16 years ago, back in 2009, YouTube was a totally different platform.

And, uh, if you remember it back then, you know, it was the star rating system.

It's like, rate, rate.

My video, five stars.

It wasn't given a like, uh, it was all standard definition video.

It's, it's crazy to see how far, uh, it's, uh, it's evolved since then.

well what?

Yeah.

I mean, that's what I always love.

Someone who's been in the game in a specific vertical or, you know, this

thing they've gone deep on for so long.

You've seen the, the changes over the years and you know what's, what's

kind of stayed tried and true, which.

You definitely know that and, and you have a lot of great resources on that.

We'll talk about some of 'em here, but like, does anything stand out with the

mind of like, why YouTube right now?

Like why do you think this is still the place for for folks to go to?

Yeah, so YouTube is the catalog of video content.

Like that's, it's the place where video content lives, where if people are looking

for, uh, a tutorial, how to use the latest AI tool, how to grow their business,

how to, you know, uh, get in shape.

Whatever people are looking up, they're going to watch a video on

YouTube and roads lead back to YouTube.

So, uh, there's a lot of people are talking about how SEO is,

uh, depending on who you talk to, some people are saying it's dying.

Others are saying, Hey, it's just shifting.

It's shifting to L-L-M-S-E-O.

But as you have more and more chatbots, people go into chat, GPT,

uh, Google, even having with their own Gemini, whatever people happen to be

using, here's what's not going away.

Video.

Because if you're looking for tutorial.

Well chat, GBT isn't gonna, at least right now, and we're not quite there yet.

Maybe in the future it could be, you know, a whole different story.

But right now it's not gonna just auto generate a video to give you what

you want, but it'll generate text.

So where people aren't going to webpages as much.

They're still going to watch videos on YouTube, and so if you're looking for

a tutorial, then really any of these AI models, if you indicate that you wanna

watch a video of some kind, it's going to populate most likely a YouTube video.

'cause it's all indexed.

They've got the transcripts of the video, especially if you're

doing on Gemini or you have.

Uh, a little recommended like the AI search, uh, bubble at the top.

And so what that means is that video is still front and center and arguably some

of the most valuable real estate on the internet because as LLMs just start to,

you know, transcribe everything or, you know, people talk to AI clones like,

uh, like you help people with, right?

Um, you know, text is getting more commoditized, whereas video.

Still has that power.

Now, yes, there are ways to create AI versions of videos, but those

are still being hosted on YouTube.

And so AI is a tool to amplify those types of videos.

But people going to YouTube, uh, is, is still incredibly strong

and it's also more based around the merits of each video.

So one of the big things people ask is how has YouTube evolved since.

You know, years and years ago.

Well, in the past it used to be like you were building up

your medieval kingdom, right?

And if you had a YouTube channel with a ton of subscribers, you were

guaranteed to get a lot of views.

And the people that had the biggest channels were the ones

that captured a lot of the views.

And sure, some people liked that style, especially the people that really built

up, you know, their channels around that.

But YouTube has now shifted to a meritocracy.

You could have a channel.

It doesn't have a lot of subscribers post a really good piece of content with

the right title, the right thumbnail.

And because AI is going to actually synthesize even, you know, YouTube's

going to, look at all the different pieces of the watch time, the

transcript, what's the video about?

What's the click through rate?

How many people are actually, you know, what's the sentiment towards this video?

Um, they're integrating all of that into the algorithm.

So now every video you have an opportunity to reach more of your ideal people.

So it really is more of a meritocracy.

Where, um, you produce a really great piece of content as long as you know

how to package it the right way.

Now, I'm not saying it's just, oh, put a good piece of content

in a bad title, bad thumbnail.

'cause people aren't gonna click that.

But you have a good piece of content, good thumbnail, good,

you know, title, it's all there.

It doesn't matter if your channel has a million subscribers or

has a hundred subscribers.

You actually have much more of an opportunity in today's algorithm to

have that video breakthrough, which I think is really exciting for a lot

of businesses and a lot of creators and a lot of people that are going

out there to start producing content.

I think that that's how I wanna lean on even more.

And I know with your, with your book coming out here, and I want, I definitely

want you to break it down a bit.

You know, you're, you're helping people have that, uh, get a lot more

of that confidence if they haven't gone out there and actually done

video yet, put themselves out there, or if they have, I, I feel like.

Uh, I can't say most people.

I don't even know what the percentage of business owners, you know, folks that,

digital marketers who are on YouTube.

'cause I feel like there's probably still a lot who have not touched it.

You know, and maybe they're just leaning on, uh, things like, uh, meta ads,

which I think you guys do as well.

But, you know, there's video and, but I, I guess, yeah.

What is a good starting point for someone to think about when they

approach YouTube and actually understand, oh, this is the place to be?

How do I approach it?

Like, where do I start?

That's a great question.

That's a big thing that we talk about.

So, you know, the book that I've got coming out here is Video

Authority, the Art and Science of Converting Viewers into Clients.

And I created this, you know, very specifically to help people.

That are actually looking to grow their business off of YouTube.

So this, what this book isn't is, this is not the book on how to go

mega viral, build a multi multimillion subscriber channel as a celebrity

on YouTube as a big influencer.

That's that's not what this book is about.

What this book is about is how you can build your business on YouTube, how you

can get a lot of great viewership, how you can also run ads, YouTube ads, targeting

the right people at the right time.

We talked about that.

Also how you could repurpose that content, not just for things like YouTube

shorts, but also other platforms as well.

How you can essentially create an entire video ecosystem to turn those viewers that

watch your videos into consistent clients.

Because the reality is, likes don't pay the bills.

There's a lot of people that have millions of subscriber channels, and I know them.

That, you know, they're not doing as well as you think they're doing in terms

of the revenue, their actual take home.

And what we want to talk about is how you can actually craft videos,

whether it's organic and it's published on the channel, uh, or um, ads that

are targeting the right people.

Uh, or really anywhere in between that are designed to actually convert

those viewers into consistent clients.

And the, the big thing that we talk about is the key is

to be, uh, a video authority.

So you don't wanna just have content that entertains or gets people excited.

What's the, what's the difference between somebody who's actually gonna be able to

turn viewers into clients and somebody that is gonna turn viewers into likes, but

you can't really take likes to the bank?

Well, the difference is whether or not you're an authority.

In something that you're gonna be able to take people off of YouTube to do.

Now this is gonna be different, right?

So it could be being the, the preeminent authority in AI clones, right?

you now create videos and content, but you, you are an authority in something.

So they're gonna be excited about actually working with you, which is very different

than, let's say somebody that's just going out there and using AI clones

and making a funny video about that.

They could amass.

Maybe even more viewership and not maybe actually they could amass more viewership

than you talking about how to build these or how these could be created, but they're

not gonna be able to drive and command the actual revenue generation that you

can do from your channel or your ads as an authority in how to build AI clones.

Same thing with me.

With YouTube ads and video marketing, right?

It's very different.

And I've even seen this because I have two channels.

I've got my, uh, app review and, uh, now it's ai, tech channel, uh, app

find, it's got 600,000 subscribers.

I don't produce the content anymore.

I have, uh, somebody, uh, Justin, he's out in Silicon Valley, produces some of

those videos on my behalf and you know, it's got over half a million subscribers.

And then I have my, uh, YouTube channel, the, our tech channel

that's got 80,000 subscribers, 83,000 subscribers, something like that.

Um.

That channel that's me produces far more revenue, far more, and especially even

if you don't account the ads, it's still substantially more, but especially if

you account the fact that I'm running ads from that channel and the ads generate

the vast majority of my business.

Then also, of course, there's the organic content, but that channel

overall, regardless of how you slice, if you just look at people

watching the content or if you look at the content plus ads, that's huge.

It's massively, uh, many, many, many fold times more revenue than my bigger,

uh, tech channel and AI channel that generates revenue from ad revenue

and sponsors and things like that.

And the reason for that is I am the authority at something that

I can take people off of the platform and turn them into clients.

And I've built some of the things I talk about.

You know, inside of this book, one of the things that I break down, just kind

of, I guess flip through, I was trying to see if I could find one of the areas, but

inside the book, I actually break down.

Here are some of the funnels that you can use.

'cause you're using video at each step, uh, of the process.

So you could have YouTube ads or you, or your, your channel, uh,

your video channel, your YouTube channel, and that's drawing people in.

So they're either gonna see an ad that you're targeting in front of

the right people, or they're gonna find one of your videos on YouTube.

So now

of funnel, more or less like

Yeah, top of funnel.

Exactly.

And by the way, that's a flywheel too.

'cause they could see your ad. If they don't take action right

away, then you could, you know, get them to watch your channel.

And if they're watching your channel, you could retarget them with an ad.

So that in of itself creates a loop.

But once you get them off platform, so they've seen an ad or your channel

or they've gone back and forth between them, now they actually click the link

to go and, uh, opt into your funnel.

Well, we like to run what we call a video conversion funnel.

It's our version.

Of a video sales letter or a webinar funnel.

But, um, the way that we like to do it is we want it to feel

like an extension of YouTube.

So let's just use, uh, yourself as an example, right?

What you could do is pull people off of, uh, either a YouTube ad or a YouTube

channel where they're gonna learn how, uh, or, or, or they're gonna discover

the benefit of having an AI clone.

Yep.

So it's, you know, uh, learn how you can, uh, you know, have an AI

clone just like these 300 other, you know, people, all the different

people that you've, you've supported.

And they put in their name, email, possibly phone number.

They click go.

Now you take them to a video and this is a, uh, 10 to 20 minute long

video, um, that we call, uh, you know, video conversion training.

So inside the video conversion funnel, and it feels like a YouTube video.

Because it hits all the right notes.

It's filmed like a YouTube video.

It's got a YouTube video kind of rhythm.

But the way that it's actually structured is like a video sales letter or like

a webinar, a mini webinar where you're actually, you know, hooking people in.

You're telling a story, you're building credibility, you're providing

value, but you're talking about the what and the why, not the how.

So you're talking about the keys, you know, that they need to learn, right?

Some of the classic, uh, you know, marketing things that you can do.

And then leading people to then, you know, examples and case studies.

And then, alright, let's, uh, let's customize this for you.

Let's book a call.

Let's see how we can support you.

And then, then you could lead that right into a book, a call funnel.

Uh, and so all of that is, is structured by having that video.

It's video to video,

uh, which we found works really well.

They're, they're not phone calls anymore.

People are hopping on Zoom calls.

So that's a video too.

So one of the things this book talks about, it's kind of funny.

I've got a whole chapter on how to do a video, uh, consultative

sales call because it's on video.

And the point that I like to make in the, in the book, and obviously there's

different funnel pages that maybe don't have a, a video on it, but the

vast majority of our business now is actually able to be built on video,

especially for expert based businesses.

So how you can actually integrate video each step of the way.

This is incredible, man.

I mean, well, I got, I gotta say, you know, I'm, I'm starting to go

through your training, so I gotta give, you know, my hats off to you

here for that because, um, yeah, I'm learn, I'm starting to learn this.

I'm in the very early stages, but what you just broke down is exactly what I

would love to do for my business, and like you said, to support the cloning

and all the AI build team stuff that.

People heard me talk about on here, but being video focused, I mean, it's,

it's a great, I mean, you're, you're hitting on all the, the modes, right?

Like you, they could see this stuff in action.

They could see you, the person.

Um, it's pretty, and I would, you know, when we're talking about

cloning, I'm definitely not ever talking about, Hey, let's clone

you and put you on YouTube and, and like, take you out of the picture.

'cause

like, I feel like.

Uh, yeah, when I look at it, it's like, no, that actually brings the human

tighter to the real human and media we're putting out there to educate, connect,

and then like what you're talking about, you're continuing that off platform.

Um, that, I guess that's the ecosystem, right?

Like that's where my brain goes to is like, ' cause I do know a lot

of creators and most of 'em do not have an ecosystem or some business

off of the platform of YouTube.

So I think that that's a huge takeaway is.

Yeah, the likes are great.

The awareness is great.

You'll get a lot of data on YouTube, but what are you gonna do with it?

And it, does it align with the business or the bigger thing that you're building

Are are there other eco, like, just to describe more, 'cause it sounds like that

that's a funnel, like let's call it for

a, a consultant, or are there other ecosystems that you can maybe at

a higher level kinda just throw out and lobb out there that people

can kind of start thinking about?

Yeah, exactly.

So that's gonna be more for an expert based business, but you

can apply this exact same type of thing to products or software.

It's just might be a little bit different how you, how you

position it and structure it.

But pulling people in from, again, ads or organic.

Um, and, and I'll talk about ecosystem in a second.

It's kind of two different questions.

So how you appeal, uh, or how you can apply this to, um, you know, product

businesses is actually demonstrating the product or the software.

And you'd be surprised, but if you watch a lot of commercials these

days, there's not a lot of actual demonstration of products or services.

It's more, you know, selling a feeling, which could be good for branding, but it's

not necessarily good for direct response.

So if you have a product you actually want to showcase, like

what are the benefits of that?

And then, you know, taking people off to a sales page where they can

actually potentially watch a video when it comes to a software, making sure

that a demo is incorporated into that.

Maybe they're opting in to see a video demo that then can lead to a demo, that

they can book a call, uh, you know, for.

So there's definitely a lot of opportunities there when it

comes to, uh, other ecosystems.

The other ecosystem that we like is content multiplication.

So you could take one video.

And turn it into dozens of pieces of content.

And it's crazy that you could do this now.

So you can essentially take a t uh, and, and this is where what I talk about is you

can essentially film in, in four hours.

You can film an entire month's worth of content where you

have weekly YouTube videos.

Daily short form content, which by the way, isn't just YouTube, it's YouTube

shorts, it's Instagram reels, it's TikTok.

LinkedIn now has shorts if you wanna publish it there.

Um, you know, and Facebook, uh, also, by the way, Facebook's reels, you

know, I put a reel up on Facebook.

I get, you know, a thousand plus views.

People say, oh, it's not really doing, you know, it might not be

as much as YouTube, but hey, those are real people watching that reel.

And so anyways, so you have all those, so you could cross promote that, then you

could turn it into a weekly newsletter.

Hmm.

As well as weekly long form, uh, you know, social media posts.

You could also do, uh, some other like, kind of, uh, short like tweet

style, uh, posts, which you could also do now, you know, with, with threads.

And Facebook's also, uh, you, you've probably seen this, they're, they're

prioritizing those, you know, uh, image, uh, background images or

whatever background color with, with short text, uh, which is kind of funny.

Um, and so essentially you can do.

Dozens of pieces of content from just one core content.

Um, and then you can film that 10 to 15 minute YouTube video in about an hour.

So if you want one of those per week, you can film those in half a day.

And so you can have an entire content strategy that takes you half a day to

film, and it's mostly AI and, uh, you know, a va, uh, or somebody on your

team that can go and put all of these different pieces together, right?

You could have.

A virtual assistant and, uh, empowered by AI and some select tools.

And there you go.

You can now repurpose all of that content on every platform and have

a full content distribution strategy that creates an ecosystem where

on organic, you're everywhere.

We talked about omnipresent retargeting too, with ads, you want to be everywhere

as well, so there's ways to create ads that can be cross-platform on all kinds

of different platforms, but you can do that both on organic and with your ads.

And that's, I, I'm happy you said that because yeah, the whole omnipresence,

this is what, yeah, I've, I've, I've preached this a lot in the past, you

know, with podcast you could do it this

way too, and that's how it splits into, but I really like what you're saying, like

specifically for YouTube, because that's.

That's kind of that.

I'll just say that's a personal shift I'm making is, you know, I, I have a great

system for the podcast and to get this kind of omnipresence split out teams doing

it with some tools like, um, Opus Clip and

Cast Magic is, uh, are there other tools like, just, just, uh, without going deep,

but like, what are some of your favorites?

I know these might change, but

Yeah, so Opus clip is really great, uh, for grabbing those.

And like you said, there's, there's other ones that you can use there too.

Uh, but that's our, that's our favorite that we use to, to clip, uh, the content.

Um, and then I love Claude for writing content.

So one really good playbook that I have is you can do a really good job

with Claude to train it on projects.

Of past writing styles.

So for instance, my, uh, newsletter, my Marketing Minds newsletter, uh, I

spent over a year hand, not handwriting, but like type hand typing, you know,

uh, my, uh, you know, newsletter with without ai, uh, for over a year.

And now I have 50 plus samples.

So I take those and I put them into a Claude project.

And then now what I can do is every time I publish a YouTube video.

I can have my virtual assistant take the YouTube video transcript, upload

it into Claude, which is trained on 50 plus examples in a specific project.

Here's my newsletter.

Alright, here's the transcript of my video and everything that I shared

here are all the newsletter examples,

using only the information I share here without, you know, adding

other bits and hallucinating, right?

This is kind of prompted, you know, um, so using only the

information I share in this video.

Fit this to the format of my newsletter in the tone, voice, and style I use

for my Marketing Minds newsletter.

Have it write everything out and then, you know, and then that can be

preloaded into my newsletter software.

And then I go in and I personally review it.

'cause that's important to me, uh, just to make sure it's written the right way.

And usually I'll change maybe 5% of it.

So there are things that I change.

It doesn't get everything perfect.

And that's what some people, I'm sure, I mean, I know you know this,

uh, with AI and everything, uh, but I'll make a couple different changes.

And then from there, uh, I've now got a full newsletter ready to go

that was based around that video.

And then I can link to the video.

So now I'm also driving up YouTube views as well.

But I also have a newsletter, and then the newsletter gets published.

As a blog, so now that's a blog as well.

And then I can also take what was written as the newsletter and I can

condense it down to Facebook posts.

I have, I mean even more like 200 plus Facebook posts that I all wrote myself.

Right.

And this is, I think the key is a lot of people with ai.

They're going out there and they're, they're just trying to,

they're not giving any examples.

They're not putting in the time to write it themselves or the content.

It's the same thing with like a clone.

It's like you wanna create a clone, but you don't have any

content out there that exists.

It's like, well,

you know, what, what do you want a clone to say?

You know?

It's like, okay.

Um, so, but, but once you do have that content, you can take that, like,

here's all the past posts that I've done, and then here's this video.

And the video is new content.

So that's the important thing too.

I'm not just rehashing old stuff or taking other people's information.

It the video, when I do a video, I just think in videos, right?

So I will go and I can just speak, uh, and you know, to the camera.

Now, obviously inside the book we talk about how to actually write scripts

and how to do that, because I know, I know that everybody's like that.

That's fine.

Don't, don't be worried.

The book talks about how to actually, you know, come up with, uh, infinite ideas.

Um, uh, you can actually use AI to help you with that.

There's also a manual way to do it.

Uh, and then once you have that, how to actually outline

it, the structure of a video.

Um, just because I've done so many of these, uh, I now

I know how to, uh, to do it.

I think at one point I, I ran, uh, the total, uh, of the videos

and it was, it was over 3000 YouTube videos that I've created.

So it's pretty, it's pretty crazy across my two main channels.

But, um, but anyways, uh, so looping back, uh, you can then, you know, train it on.

Uh, on, okay, what's a, what's a Facebook post, what's a LinkedIn post gonna be?

And then you can take that video and turn it into that as well, that transcript.

So you can essentially do effortless, uh, you know, content multiplication to be

omnipresent across, uh, across different

It is incredible, and it all starts with that one YouTube video that, um,

I don't know, call it 15 minutes I think is what you said, or something

like that where that's the end result.

But ideally you're batch recording all of this, which that's, that was

the game changer with this podcast.

And, you know, um.

Now it's kind of changed a little bit.

I used to do like three or four episodes in a day, and that's almost

like mind numbing for a podcast.

But

if it's a YouTube video, that's, uh, it's a lot easier if

you're planned out in advance.

Right.

And have that, have that game plan.

Yeah.

And you're, you're able just to kind of film them back to back, right?

And, and, and it doesn't, it might not even take you half a, like for

me it doesn't take that long anymore.

it also depends if you're doing a screen share style video or you're talking

to camera, if you know exactly what you're gonna say or you have to kind of

do a little bit of research as you're going or, or prep it a little bit more.

So then maybe it's not four hours of filming, but you have

to spend a little bit more time like coming up with a script.

So

there's different things with that.

Um.

And, uh, and we also, you know, make it simple each step along the way.

So obviously, you know, I broke these everything down inside of the book,

but I also have other software tools.

So I've got my, you know, AI ad targeting software, the keyword search.com.

But I've got my YouTube thumbnail creation software, uh, you

know, thumbnail creator.com.

And.

I have, uh, a YouTube video script writer that can write YouTube video

scripts in your voice, video ideas.ai.

Now, it's kind of interesting 'cause that software hasn't really taken off as

much outside of my core, uh, ecosystem.

Um, but it's very, it works well to kind of come up with, all right, it's

gonna research trending topics and come up with video ideas that you can

do and then, um, and then basically help you write kind of a sample script.

Which I love, Harry, you're just dropping all those like, uh, those

little tidbit tools that you have because like I, I knew you had some of 'em,

but Yeah, like thumbnail creator.com.

I just pulled it up.

I'm like, oh my God.

Like everyone needs this.

You know, anybody on D that's like,

yeah, I mean, just go there.

We will link all those up too.

'cause those are great.

You set 'em quickly, but we'll pull 'em out.

Yeah.

Well, I, I appreciate that.

I'm sure.

Yeah.

Put, put a link down there and, you know, just saying that to, to

mention some of the different tools.

Uh, obviously people want to check 'em out.

Then, you know, they all have free trials too, so people can go and give

it a try and, and see how they like it.

Well, that's the key thing is like knowing that these are, you're solving

for the bottlenecks that people, you know, the friction points that people

are inherently gonna have because.

I mean, even me who have been, I've been creating podcast content for

a lot of, lot of, lot of years.

Uh, the YouTube side has always been kind of like a byproduct.

It's on there, but I know the focus has not been there.

And, you know, there's, there's, everybody is on the spectrum of, of,

you know, how comfortable they are on camera or maybe how much they get hung

up with an idea, but don't take action.

So like, what's.

What are some common bottlenecks and solutions to getting out of our heads,

you know, and actually hitting the record button, or even scripting something like

what are the common ways that you can, that you see that you just kind of can

hopefully bust that bubble for people so we can just get to creating and posting.

Well, one of the big ones, and you might not fall into this, but.

Uh, some people watching or, or listening definitely, definitely

do is, you know, just the, the fear of creating, you know, videos and

putting yourself out there on camera.

And I know a lot of people say, all right, Alex, this is easy for you to say clearly.

Never had a a, that kind of fear.

Well, actually that's not necessarily the case.

So, you know, seven, eight years ago, um, I had had my YouTube channel already, but

it used to be a faceless channel, right?

My, my tech channel.

You could hear my voice, you could see my hands.

I was showing, you know, every new iPhone or whatever.

But you couldn't actually see my face.

So, um, about eight years ago now, it was time for me to film like

one of my first ads for myself with my face as an expert business.

And so, you know, in the past, one of the things that I had done is I had

gone and, um, you know, uh, worked with EE either you couldn't see my

face or I'd worked with other clients.

Um, but now I wanted to run my own YouTube ads.

So I filmed this video following my methodology, following my

process, and I watched it back.

And I was, uh, I was nervous.

I was like, oh no, I didn't really like the way that I looked.

Um, I was actually about 50 pounds heavier than I am today.

Uh, 'cause as I was initially starting, you know, this business, you know,

I was so focused on that I wasn't, you know, taking care of my health as

much and fitness and all that stuff.

So I was like 50 pounds heavier, you know?

I didn't really like how I looked.

I was self-conscious about it.

And I remember watching that video and I almost deleted it.

Um, and I'm glad that I didn't because that ad. The one that I was so embarrassed

about, it ended up being the first ad to make me a million dollars in my business.

That one ad

Awesome.

ran over half a million views to it, and it, and the lesson

I learned is it doesn't matter.

You know, what you look like, what you sound like, you know who you

are, like what background you have.

Like if you're, you know, self-conscious, all that matters is that you're

being yourself and you, you're so, you're being authentic, but you're

also showing up as an authority.

Because if you watch that video, you know, maybe I'm a little

self-conscious with how I look, but I am showing up as an authority.

I clearly know what I'm talking about and I'm showing up as myself.

I'm not pretending to be anybody else, you know, myself at that time.

You know, obviously I've grown as a, you know, person since that, but

you know, basically.

You're showing up as that authentic authority.

So one of the things that's actually one of the chapters in the book,

it starts off by talking about how to be an authentic authority.

You wanna tap into that authenticity of who you are and how you're showing up.

You know, when you're creating content, and you also want to be seen as that

expert and let your expertise shine.

And if you can do that, you're gonna be able to get, uh, the results you're

looking for, even if there's certain things that you're self-conscious about.

One other technique.

Uh, or thi there's actually a few little techniques, uh, that you can use to

break a, a fear of being on camera.

So one is just realizing that you're on camera all the time.

If you hop on Zoom calls, FaceTime calls, you know, uh, all kinds.

It's all of those things.

You are on camera and you don't, you don't feel any spec, any kind of, oh, you know,

uh, nervousness when you're doing that.

And that's because.

You're going and you're used to it.

You're used to being on Zoom, you're used to being on FaceTime.

Um, so the second tip is to speak like you're talking to somebody

on Zoom or FaceTime, like you're talking to a close friend,

and that way your passion can shine through.

It's like you're filming the video for them, not anybody else.

Don't think about different other people that might be watching.

Just think about, you know, as if it was a friend that's gonna be

the only person that watches this.

And the way you can do that.

Is you get to decide.

The third piece is you could delete the video.

That's true.

We

You don't have to see it.

You have control.

And so if you understand those three things, uh, and, and this is

something that we teach, you know, our clients, it's also something

that I talk about in the book.

Um, and I've had people say, you know, thank you for this.

Like, even though it sounds like it's simple, sometimes you gotta

think about you break it down.

When you think about it that way, that you're already on video, you can film

it as if you're talking to somebody specific and you're in control as to

whether anybody ever sees that video.

It depressurizes you filming a video, which means you're gonna film a

better video, which means that you don't, you don't need to delete it.

Like, you know how I didn't delete mine?

And you can go and publish it, or you film a couple versions, right?

Again, maybe you do delete that one, but you film another

Hmm.

I love it, man.

And this is, yeah, I think the, the takeaway, uh, there's a couple things.

So I used to.

I used to, uh, coach myself through this back in the day when I was

starting, and this is like 15 years ago with like flip cams and stuff.

Um, I remember, yeah, like, just make the red light my friend.

You know, I'm just talking to my buddy and you know,

it's not so much red lights and I guess we're on Riverside and I see

a red light here, so, you know,

but, um, the fact is take the pressure off yourself.

Like that's the thing is like, it doesn't have to be pressure.

E, especially if you are rooted in your, your own authenticity and you

know what, you are the best in the world at whatever your superpower is.

Talk from that place.

And yeah, sometimes that word, you know, might feel woo woo to some people or

like, what does it mean to be authentic?

But literally, if you think about it, every aspect of life, if you walk into

a room and if you are yourself and you don't care about what other people are

really thinking about you, you're good.

You're living the good life.

So it's.

And this almost is like, you know, for anyone who might be hesitant

or feel some friction here, it's almost like therapy in a way.

Start recording videos and, and watch back.

Maybe don't analyze it, but if you're feeling like, yeah, I said

some pretty good smart stuff here.

Post it, you know, like

get it out there.

Go share it, get some feedback.

Maybe don't listen to all the feedback.

Just keep posting, you know.

But yeah.

And um.

I'm thinking of like on the paid ad side.

'cause we haven't really talked too much there.

And I know

it'll, have a whole, you know, the book I know touches on it.

You have all the training and awesome YouTube channel.

Definitely go follow Allic on YouTube as well and we'll give

links to the book and everything.

Are there any strategies, um, like in terms of like the

batching for instance, all,

all that content.

Would those, are they the same videos in the ads or is it like a

full different kind of approach and there's a whole scripting process?

It's a different, it's a different approach and we can

touch on it pretty quickly.

So really, um, I can actually break down the framework.

One time at one point I was challenged to, uh, to break this down in like

three minutes and I was able to do

it so we can, we can do it.

So basically the, exactly the start, the clock, the, so the strategy on the YouTube

side, um, is it, there's two pieces.

There's the actual ad and then there's the targeting.

And the ad is a little different than a YouTube video.

Uh, 'cause it's a little bit shorter, it's two to three minutes long,

versus a YouTube video might be anywhere from eight to 15 minutes

long, or some go a little bit longer.

And so with the ad, you want it to be hook, educate, call to action.

The hook pulls people in.

You provide value, you educate them.

You actually give them value.

In the ad, we call it a value ad because that's what makes your ad

stand out from everybody else's.

Most people are, Hey, do you have this problem?

Okay, we'll go buy my thing or go book a call or go sign up for my training.

But.

You know, are you actually providing value?

People are on YouTube to get value, so you want to pull them in.

You wanna provide value in the ad? Talk a little bit about this high level, right?

But talk a little bit about things that they might not know, uh, you know,

pieces of information you can give them, whatever that happens to be.

And then you have a clear, concise call to action at the end to get

them to take action off of the video.

So, hook, educate, call to action.

Then when it comes to the targeting, um, targeting it all comes down to

this, reaching the right person at the right time, at the right message.

We've already got the message and the ads, so now we gotta reach the

right person at the right time.

Now, you can use Google's prebuilt audiences.

They have audiences already, people interested in, let's say, you know,

business or advertising and marketing, whatever, but you can actually

build your own custom audiences.

That's the key.

We want to get alpha results.

We call it the Alpha AI targeting strategy because we're training the ai, Google's

AI to reach more of your ideal client.

And so, for instance, um, you know, let's say you were going out there and targeting

your ads, as you know, which we're gonna be doing soon as we're working with you

as, so for people looking to build, uh, AI clones or, or learn about AI clones.

So I, instead of relying on Google's existing audiences, which

I can tell you they don't have one that's just interest in ai, clone

what you can do.

Is you can build one.

So you could build a u uh, you could build a interest affinity where

you can actually put in AI clones.

Uh, you had to build an AI clone, AI clone for my business, um, et cetera.

So you put all the interest into one.

So now it's people that Google knows it's interest, but you actually go

a lever deeper and you can do what's called a custom search intent.

So you could target people who are searching for specific things, how

to build an AI clone, um, uh, what's the best way to build an AI clone.

Uh, et cetera.

Right?

And so, and again, by the way, if you're wondering how do you

come up with these search terms?

Well, that's where my software comes into play, the keyword search.com,

that finds YouTube keywords and actually syncs directly to Google ads.

Um, but you can find all these keywords that people are searching for.

Uh, and then you also have URL affinity audiences.

This is based on what websites people are going to, so they're already going

to sites kind of related to that.

Then you could target those people the next time that they're on YouTube.

So you now have multiple different ways, and there's a few others, but

that's, those are the main ones.

Um, and so now you're building those custom audiences to

reach the right people.

You're trained in the algorithm, so hook, educate, call to action,

and then a custom audience.

Uh, in the alpha AI targeting, that is the, uh, the formula for YouTube ads.

Of course, uh, we break it down and we have more timeless principles

in the book, and then the book has resources that go to more, you know,

tactical, uh, things as well that come

Well, it's, well, let's give people the, and thank you for breaking that down.

I think that was under three minutes.

I, I wasn't,

but it felt about, about right.

That was.

Yeah,

there.

Around there.

yeah, yeah.

I wanna shout out the book, uh, just how folks can get to it.

So, uh, video authority book.com.

Go, go, go there.

I know it's gonna be released depending on when this episode, it might be live.

It might not be, but either way, that'll get you there.

Right?

Video

authority book.com.

exactly.

Video authority book.com and I, I've been working on this for the last three years.

So it's got step by step, um, and you can actually see it's

got actual like, action plans.

So it's got the visuals and everything too.

So it's like, all right, here's your video conversion training.

Here's all the different pieces.

And then it also, afterwards, after each chapter, it's got the step-by-step

guide of what you learned in the chapter to actually take action.

Because that's what I like out of a, out of a book.

It doesn't just teach you.

It also says, alright, here's what you should actually do to,

to put this, uh, into action.

Here's a little visual of what it'll look

I love it and I love it that it, it's set in principles and that's

like what we were talking about here.

What I try to do with this show is, yeah, let's talk about ai.

Some of the cool was being stuff that's coming out, but we know

stuff's gonna change, but there are principles that we should be

definitely living by and and studying.

And I mean, the fact that you've been working on this for three years.

And I trust you, and I've seen the material you put out there, you know,

in the, in the private members area.

I'm like, oh my gosh.

Like you've done your homework in, in every which way.

So,

uh, I appreciate you breaking this down and making it, um,

digestible, at least here.

And definitely if you're.

Any at all interested in YouTube and you should be, of course.

That's, that's your man here.

All I can go get his book.

Um, what's, uh, just to kind wrap it up here, what is, what's the thing that hangs

you up now when it comes to like, video?

Is there, do you have any like, uh, friction points of your own and

second part of that, you know, maybe how, how do you get past there?

But also what are you interested in?

Like what are you excited about in the coming year or two, let's say in general?

That's a good point.

I think the biggest friction point for me is time in that I have a lot of

things that I'm focused on and doing and I'm speaking all over the country

and I'm, you know, also running, uh, my business and I'm also creating my

content and I don't have as much time as I once did years ago to create, uh,

all the content that I want to create.

But AI could potentially help that, uh, be even better.

But I, I also think that there's a human element of connecting with people,

uh, that's really valuable on video.

So with ai, there's AI ad hooks we're finding that works really well,

especially at the beginning of a video.

So the first eight seconds as an ad, especially on an ad.

So not necessarily a regular video, but you know, an ad that can hook

people in, and then you draw them into the rest of the video, which might be

more of a standard, uh, YouTube video.

So we're finding that that works quite well.

Uh, or standard YouTube ad, I mean to say.

Um, and, uh, and that works quite well at the AI side.

Um, and then when it comes to, yeah, handling some of the, the bottleneck

stuff, I think I'm actually working right now on a new process for creating, uh,

and publishing content more rapidly.

So,

uh, that's in the works and, uh, we'll, we'll probably be ramping

up through the rest of this year, but especially going into next

Well that sounds pretty exciting too.

So.

Do,

do you see like, just, I guess just to really end on this thing, um, like

YouTube and where it's headed, because, you know, we have things like AI video

clones now, and you see, you know, uh, social networks starting to make that

a lot easier to create those, you know, and, and kind of replace the human.

Like, do you have any fears or, or I guess, or opportunities with kind

of this new tech maybe integrating into YouTube or do, do you just have

any kind of perspectives there in the, in the coming, let's say year,

'cause things are rapidly moving.

What I would say is I think people are still gonna want to

connect directly with people.

Um, but I think that AI is just gonna be another tool that you can use to more

rapidly create what you want to create.

So it's really interesting with ads, what we're seeing is the best performing

ads, uh, aren't ads that are just ai.

But they're also not just, uh, normal.

Um, they're now AI ad hooks.

So the first eight seconds, like I was sharing and then followed by a

more standard, you know, human ad.

And I think that kind of speaks to where we're going is the hybrid model

of AI being a piece of it, but not being all of it is gonna be, um, is gonna

be valuable when it comes to video.

I could see that.

'cause people are just, yeah, we'll, we'll just see it everywhere, honestly.

And it's, it's kind of hard to distinguish in some cases, for better or for worse.

But yeah, I like that.

And probably rapid testing of hooks and whatnot can be done once you kind of

dial in what you're doing already, but.

Exactly.

Awesome, man.

Well, this is great.

I know you're a wealth of information and appreciate you for being

so open and coming back again.

Go get video authority book.com, that's the new book, and that'll, that'll

take you to all the right spots.

So Aleric, thank you my man.

Appreciate

Thanks so much, Joe.

I appreciate it.