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Lesson 6 of 7

One thing, six places

You are not making six things. You are making one thing and putting it in six places. That is the entire difference between sustainable and exhausting.

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Start here

The reason people quit is arithmetic

Six platforms times three posts a week is eighteen things to invent. Nobody sustains that alongside a business.

So they try for two weeks, run out of ideas by Thursday, and quietly stop. Then they conclude they are bad at content, when what actually happened is that the maths never worked.

One recording session, one afternoon, produces a week. That is four hours a week, in two sittings, and it is repeatable indefinitely because you are never starting from nothing.

The six

One idea, six shapes

Start with a sixty to ninety second answer to a real customer question. Everything else is a version of it.

A short video

Filmed once on a phone, with captions. This is the source material for everything below.

Posts on your channels

The same message written out, adapted to how each place reads. Nothing new invented.

A carousel or graphic

The three steps from the video, one per slide. Made once in Canva from a template you reuse.

A blog post on your site

Four hundred words, the customer's question as the title. The only one you own.

An email to your list

Same message, more directly, to people who already said yes to hearing from you.

A link back to the blog

Every post you schedule points at that article, so the traffic lands on your domain.

Making the source

The sixty seconds everything comes from

You do not need a studio, a script you memorise, or confidence you do not have. You need three things and about twenty minutes.

Write it as three lines. The question your customer actually asks, one useful answer, one thing to do next. Ninety seconds is the ceiling. If it will not fit, it is two videos.

Read it off the screen. This is the part nobody tells you, and it is why most people give up after two takes. A teleprompter app scrolls your script over the camera, so you are reading rather than remembering. You look calm because you are calm. Uniqueme has one built in, free, and CapCut has one too.

Film it on your phone. Propped at eye level, window in front of you rather than behind. A clip-on microphone helps more than any camera upgrade, because people forgive a soft picture and never forgive bad sound.

Caption it. CapCut does it in one click. Most people watch with the sound off, so a video without captions is a video nobody finished.

Ten minutes

Write three scripts before you set the phone up

Three questions in, three scripts out, all in your own words rather than a marketer's. That is one filming session.

Prompt: write my video scripts

I want to film three short videos answering questions my customers ask me all the time. I will film all three in one sitting. Before you write anything, ask me these questions one at a time and wait for my answer each time: 1. What is your business, and who is the customer asking these questions? 2. What are three questions they ask you most often, in their words? 3. For each one, what is your honest answer, said the way you would say it out loud? 4. What is the one mistake you watch people make with this? 5. What do you want someone to do after watching, exactly one thing? Then write three scripts, each 130 to 150 words, which read aloud in about ninety seconds. Each one in three parts: - The hook: the question itself, in the customer's words. First line only. - One useful thing: a real, specific answer. Not a teaser. - One next step: a single instruction, never a list of options. For each script also give me: - A one-line text hook to put on screen for the first three seconds - A caption for the post, with the hook as its first line Then list three more questions I could film next week, based on what I told you. Rules: - Write it to be spoken, not read. Short sentences, contractions, no word I would not say to someone sitting across a table. - No introduction. Never "hi everyone, welcome back". - Do not invent numbers, prices, timeframes or claims I did not give you. - Flag anything I must verify before publishing, especially prices, regulations, insurance or health claims.
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Read each one out loud before you film it. If you stumble on a sentence, that sentence was written to be read rather than spoken — change it to whatever you said instead.

Before you overthink it

Film three in one sitting, not one at a time

Setting up is the slow part. Once the phone is propped and the light is right, the second and third videos cost you four minutes each.

Same spot, same outfit, three questions. Do not rewatch them between takes, because that is where the afternoon goes.

Your first three will be stiff and you will want to delete them. Post them anyway. The people watching are the ones who were already thinking about calling you, and they are not judging your delivery — they are relieved that somebody finally answered the question.

The one that matters

Five of these expire. One does not.

This is the part almost everyone gets backwards.

A social post lives for two days. It reaches whoever happened to be scrolling, and then it is gone. That is fine — it is how people discover you — but it is rented ground.

A blog post on your own website answers a question someone types into Google, and it keeps answering it. Two years from now that page can still be sending you customers, because search does not have a feed that moves on.

So use their exact question as the page title. Not your industry's phrasing. If customers ask “how much does this cost”, that is the title, and that is what gets found.

Ten minutes

Turn one script into all six

Give it the video script and it produces every other version, so you never write the same idea twice.

Prompt: turn one idea into six pieces

I have one short video script and I want to turn it into six pieces of content without inventing anything new. Before you write anything, ask me these questions one at a time and wait for my answer each time: 1. Paste or describe the script. What question does it answer? 2. What is your business, and who is the customer asking this? 3. Which platforms do you post on? 4. What do you want someone to do after reading or watching? Then give me all six, clearly labelled: A. A caption for the video, with the hook in the first line. B. A written post saying the same thing for someone who will not watch a video. C. A carousel or graphic outline, one short line per slide, maximum five slides. D. A blog post of about 400 words, titled with the customer's question in their own words. E. A short email to my list, under 150 words, linking to the blog post. F. Three one-line prompts I could film next, based on questions this one raises. Rules: - Do not invent facts, numbers or claims that are not in my script. - Short sentences. Write the way I speak, not the way a marketer writes. - The blog post title must be the question a customer would actually type into Google.
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The blog post is the one to check most carefully. It is the piece that has your name on it for years, and the only one Google will judge you on.

Where this goes

You now have a system that feeds itself

Questions become content, content brings people, people join the list. The last lesson is what happens when someone on that list is ready to pay you.

All of it is laid out in the free 7-Day Content Engine guide. Making the blog post rank is SEO services, and there are worked examples on the blog and in the client reports.

Your task before lesson 7

Take one thing you already posted this month and turn it into a 400-word blog post on your own website. Use the customer's question as the title.

The seven lessons

Read them in order, or jump to the one you are stuck on

  1. 1 What to give awayPick the one thing worth handing over for free.
  2. 2 Write it in two pagesDraft it in one sitting, using a five-part shape.
  3. 3 The page that collects emailsOne page, one job, and what to leave off it.
  4. 4 Set up your list properlyThe half hour that decides inbox or spam folder.
  5. 5 Tell people it existsWhere to put the link, and how to keep mentioning it.
  6. 6 One thing, six placesYou are here.
  7. 7 Sell what you knowCharge for the deeper version, with nothing monthly.