Transcripts for videos: a blogging hack you need to start using! | #Jan30 07

Hi Jasper from Yellow Glove Productions here.

In previous videos I have spoken about using videos scripts for your blogs. With the Jan30 videos so far, I have been using the scripts on the Yellow Glove website as blog articles to go along with the videos when they get posted. This in turn should help my search engine optimisation.

The theory is that my video related ramblings will generate video related traffic, that traffic being people potentially looking to find out more about having professional video in their business. 

Scripts are great as blogs because they can often just be copied and pasted straight onto your site. However, sometimes scripts can feel a bit on the short side, if you want to aim for blogs that are getting around 1000 words in per post then you can do two things. 

1. Bulk out your scripts, go really into detail with what your talking about 

OR

The second option which I think works as sort of a hack. 

2. Start interviewing or having video conversations with people and then use transcripts. 

This is something I have been doing more of recently, having conversations on video and then using the awesome site rev.com to quickly turn all of that talking on video into typed up words. 

This saves a huge amount of time when it comes to actually writing your blogs. The material is all there in the conversation transcript. Just a simple copy, paste, add an intro and your next blog article is good to go! 

This is the awesome thing about interviews and conversations, you can be prepared with questions or a talking points and the likelihood is that what gets said is often going to be more than you would have typed up about a subject. 

As long as what you are talking about is actually relevant to your industry and customers, then your transcripts should have no problem in converting to blogs that help to either answer questions that your potential buyers want to know or help them to find out more about a product, service or individual. 

Let’s be honest. Blog writing can get boring sometimes but bouncing ideas off one another in a conversation can bring out some amazing insights that you may not have written down in the first place. 

Let me know in the comments if getting video transcripts is something you’ve done for your own blogging? It’s definitely something I wish I had done sooner. 

Thanks for watching I should note that this is the 7th Jan30 video, it has been a fantastic week of content so far and there is still lots more to come! 

Speak soon!