In the last installment of the Project 24 Blogging Timeline mini-series, Ricky & Nathan share how to start planning the future of your blog. They discuss options to incorporate based on your future goals.

01:47  Month 19-24
05:12  Passive Growth Plan
16:42  Active Growth Plan
29:19  Making It Your Own

For most people the most effective thing you can do right now to up-level your content for the time and effort that it will take is making better thumbnails. Julia walk through different exercises you can do to increase your understanding of good thumbnails & some “Rules of Thumb” (see what we did there?!) of how to avoid common mistakes.

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Nathan and Ricky dive back into the mini-series discussing the Project 24 Blogging Timeline. They share content and monetization insights you can use during the 13-18 month timeframe on your blog.

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Ricky & Julia discuss some key elements of developing a branded culture for your channel and what to do when you need to make a change.

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Nathan and Ricky continue with the mini-series discussing the Project 24 Blogging Timeline. They share key actions you should plan to take during the 7-12 month timeframe on your blog.

Julia talks through our pre-publish checklist for YouTube videos. Not all 15 of these will apply to you. Make your own checklist with the ones that are relevant for you and your channel.

15 Pre-Publish Steps:

Here’s an example of a template to add to your channel. Of course you’ll have to customize it for your own channel!

** This Paragraph Changes Every Time – Hook them to make them excited to watch this specific video**

Check out my _ (book, website, info product, etc) – link-

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Here’s a video from the channel Film Booth where Ed demonstrates the “watch next” strategy really well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHOJFv4iaMc

Nathan and Julia kick off a mini-series discussing the Project 24 Blogging Timeline. They review what to expect in each month, common pitfalls, and where to focus your attention.

00:37  Blogging Timeline Expectations
04:33  Month 1
11:27  Month 2
16:06  Month 3
24:10  Month 4
28:01  Month 5
32:37  Month 6

Nathan shares his secret to motivation and productivity on a small, personal channel.

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Nathan & Ricky discuss variations of some frequently asked questions around transferring followers across platforms, language barriers, post titles, and finding your audience.

00:53  Blogging in Multiple Languages
07:36  Post Titles
13:14  Finding Your Audience

The YouTube Creator Studio is full of all kinds of metrics, but what do all these numbers mean? Nate and Julia dive in to what metrics matter and what to do if you find some are low.

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