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hello everybody thank you so much for

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joining us here today uh today we're

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going to be talking about how you can

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use B Cloud to send video

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emails uh so before we jump into that of

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course as always if you have any

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questions whether it's while this is

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broadcasting live or if it's after the

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fact feel free to send in your questions

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in the chat or in the comments and we'll

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be eager to answer them uh so first of

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all what are video emails well they are

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videos that are sent to people via email

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that link to a landing page and the

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reason they have to link to somewhere

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else is because technically speaking

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emails can't actually truly embed videos

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in them uh and so we have a few choices

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for how you can approach doing this in

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VIP Cloud um these can be videos that

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are recorded using your webcam they can

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be videos that are we have a file that

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you upload into the system and they can

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also be videos that link to say like a

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YouTube or Vio so let's get the screen

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share going here and walk through

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this um so first of all let's talk about

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recording a video using your

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webcam so you are going to be able to

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most people get will will start this

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process by clicking on this Plus button

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right here and then you have a couple of

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choices you've got video email or record

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a video and there's only a minor

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difference video email when you click on

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that it will let you record the video

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and then just send it to somebody right

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away whereas record video is basically

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just that you record the video and then

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it's stored in your content and then you

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can use it a little bit

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later so for right now we're going to

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click on this right here be email now if

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it's your first time uh doing this your

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browser will probably prompt you in the

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upper left corner just a little bit

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above where my mouse is showing there

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and it will ask for permission to you

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know have vcloud access your uh camera

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and your audio that is uh you know

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totally expected make sure you hit okay

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on that and then uh and then this window

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right here will pop up where all you

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have to do is hit that record button

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it'll instantly start

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recording and whenever you are done and

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you're happy with your take you can hit

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that uh that stop

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button and you can just let

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this stay as it is just hit the upload

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button it'll upload the

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video and it'll give you an opportunity

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to change the title if you want

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also by the way you see this right here

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where it says that the this is completed

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encoding this is actually a really

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important thing I need to mention right

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away because encoding basically just

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means uh that the video has processed

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and now it's usable so if you have a

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longer video it'll take longer for that

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processing to take place uh and then and

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become

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usable uh and so you need to make sure

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that your video has

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encoded you say like an example video

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we'll discuss the gift thumbnails a

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little bit later and then here we can

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say send a contact that's going to be

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like we're ready just to send this over

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to somebody right away send a list will

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be if you want to send it as a mouse

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email and Content Library as well that's

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if you want to just go to your existing

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library of all of your videos in this

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case we're going to say send a contact

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because we want to maybe this is like a

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sales interaction and what we want to do

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is send this over to somebody as a

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personal message for Somebody by the way

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video email is awesome for this to

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really be able to make an impact with

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somebody where they know this is a a

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video that you have recorded just for

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them and then from here it's just the

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usual process of s who you want to send

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it to what the subject is and we can see

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right here that this has automatically

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inserted this video into the email and

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we can send it when we are ready and

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what will happen is when they click on

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this they will be taken to a landing

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page where your video will be displayed

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to them and I think it's also important

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to mention here too that this that we

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host videos that are recorded in this

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way that I just showed you so what that

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means is that you don't have to go

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through the laborious process of

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uploading things to YouTube and then of

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course when they go to YouTube well they

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might just get distracted over there

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like happens to the best of us and uh in

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this case we really want them to focus

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on your message not on stuff that their

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favorite creators we're also creating so

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this keeps them

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focused all right now let's talk about

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uploading videos it's very very similar

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but I just want to show you what that

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looks like so we hit on this plus button

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right here you'll see this option right

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here file upload a file

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slide you can click on that and then

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this will uh you probably can't see it

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right now but my computer is uh letting

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me browse for a video and I'm going to

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choose a video right

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here and you're always going to have the

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sharable option pop up right here we're

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going to hit

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upload and very similar here we can

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rename this if we want to I'm going to

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jump right over to content management

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because also I want to show you

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again how you can kind of tell if a

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video is encoded yet or not so we can

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see right here we got this video that I

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that I just uploaded before for and it

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has encoded we can see the thumbnail

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that is the giveaway that this it has

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encoded and it's ready to send to people

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this is not but we can see right here

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that it had while I was talking it has

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encoded because got that little uh

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notification there and when I refresh

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this page you'll see that there's going

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to be a

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thumbnail I

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refreshed and there's the thumbnail we

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are ready to rock and roll with this

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video um also want to talk about

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how if you like our mobile app is great

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for also doing this but using your

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phone's camera so you can upload videos

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from your phone and you can also use

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your phone's camera to record videos uh

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in the viip Cloud app and have them go

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directly into your viip Cloud's

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content the only caveat there that I

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want you to keep in mind is

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that there's a lot of stuff that can go

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wrong uh technically speaking while a

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video is being uploaded while some like

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long video is is going through your data

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signal and into VI cloud and there's any

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kind of interruption things uh might not

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work so if it's a longer video like I'd

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say even like longer than 30 seconds or

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so my recommendation would be to use

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cloud storage like Google drive or

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something like that to or Dropbox to

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get that video loaded into your VIP

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cloud account and then you just follow

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that process that I just showed you here

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of uploading it from here that is a

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great way to just uh reduce the

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variables that could go go wrong along

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the way so try it first using unless you

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know it's a really long video like five

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minutes or something uh you could try it

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first see if it uh if it works and uh

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and then if it doesn't just just use a

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Dropbox or Google drive or something

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like that to get it onto your laptop and

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then upload it using this right

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here all right so we've talked about

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Rich Text uh videos uh or Rich the Rich

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Text Editor at least when it's being

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sent to an individual contact let's just

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go

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into our email

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templates and I'm just going to show you

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really quickly in the Rich Text Editor

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how you can go about adding a a video to

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your

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email we're go over

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here and it's as easy as using that

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insert video button right there now if

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you're doing what I'm doing here and

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it's a fresh template I'm going to be

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inserting it a little hack that I like

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to show you is that if you add a space

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to where the cursor is it's more likely

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to land exactly where you want it to go

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um and so just throw a space in there

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hit insert

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video and let's just throw this one in

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there there we go we've got our email

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right there or our video right there and

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it is ready to be saved and

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sent now let's go to the HTML

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Builder go

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here HTML

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Builder and we have a couple of options

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here so let's just throw a sample

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template in here really

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quickly all right so we can see our

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video block right here let's uh throw

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this right

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there click in

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it and we have two options choose video

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or link to

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video and we're going to choose a video

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first and there we go as we can see we

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have our library of videos

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choose that right there and here we go

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we are all set uh now if we wanted it to

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be a YouTube video Let's just throw one

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right on top just

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uh there we

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go can grab our blocks

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video and let's just grab a YouTube link

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really

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quickly and we're going to throw it in

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there and it's processing and it will

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have that thumbnail automatically

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grabbed from

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YouTube now one thing you want to keep

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in mind here as well is if this template

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does not have a landing page associated

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with it what'll happen is when they

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click on the video they'll just see the

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the

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page just it'll be just the video itself

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it won't be in the context of the rest

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of the template

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so if you just if you you just have to

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think about what experience you want

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them to have if you want them to click

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on this and you know actually I'm gonna

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I'm gonna pause this recording really

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quickly and just demonstrate for you

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because I think it'll be best for you to

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see all right what I wanted to show you

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here is if you don't have the landing

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page enabled for this HTML Builder and

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you send this template to somebody

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and they click on one of these videos

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well especially if they click on a VI

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Cloud video they are going to be taken

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to that video landing page like this

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where it's just showing the the video

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itself or if it's the YouTube video it's

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going to take them to

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YouTube but if you have the landing page

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enabled it will take them to the landing

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page itself where they can see the video

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in the context of the rest of that

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template temp or if it's the YouTube

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video they can watch the Youtube video

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in the context of that that template

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itself so that's just a choice that you

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have to make for what's going to make

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the most sense for your use case I think

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the uh in this people often will choose

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the landing page

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option all right lastly I just want to

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show you really quickly what gift what

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gift thumbnails look like and how you

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can use them and actually let's just

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really quickly just just show you here

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the result this is a gift thumbnail

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right here where it will autoplay a

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little bit it's great way to catch

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people's eyes it's because there's a

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moving image in there um and you can be

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like waving at them stuff like that to

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get their

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attention and as you might have seen

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you're able

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to choose if you want it to be a gift

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thumbnail as you're uploading a video

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it's little check

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box but your also able

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to update a video to be a gift

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thumbnail as you are uh or after the

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after you've uploaded it so you're going

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to find that here under click on this

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button right here change

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thumb you can see right here create gift

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thumbnail and you're able to choose

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where in time this will start and so

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what that means is like it's going to

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choose where in that in the video itself

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is it going to start typically you don't

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really want it to be like at zero

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seconds so let's just put it at like two

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seconds in

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update and there we go as you can see

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now this has a gift thumbnail and you

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can

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also add your own thumbnail image as

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well if that's something that you

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want all right well I think that's about

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it for this video I hope you find this

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to be helpful I think video emails are a

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really great way to communicate with

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your audience whether it's in a

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marketing context if it's in a sales

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context in an account management context

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uh there are tons of Realms where it's

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helpful to be able to communicate with

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people in a spoken word where they can

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actually watch your face and build that

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human connection with you so uh a lot of

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great ways you can use this and I hope

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that it helps you in your business

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building Journey thank you so much