Prioritize storytelling over trends on TikTok for sustainable content creation.
Emphasize humanizing brand content and providing value to engage audiences effectively.
Deep dives
Focusing on Authentic Stories on TikTok
Encouraging creators to prioritize storytelling over following trends on TikTok. Emphasizes the importance of sharing personal or company stories to create meaningful and sustainable content. Presents a storytelling formula involving a captivating hook, setting, conflict, resolution, and call to action for engaging videos.
Creating Engaging Video Content
Discusses the process of creating video content from writing and recording drafts to incorporating visuals and text overlays. Emphasizes the importance of storytelling progression and audience engagement through compelling narratives and calls to action. Offers practical advice on compiling videos using available footage and relevant text.
Building Engaging Brand Accounts
Highlights the necessity for brands to humanize their content and establish genuine connections with their audiences. Argues that brands should focus on providing value and relating to consumers rather than solely promoting products aggressively. Cites Bose as an example of a brand successfully using humor and understanding platform dynamics to engage users.
Sustainable Growth and Community Building
Emphasizes the significance of consistent, value-driven content creation for sustainable growth and community building. Discourages the pursuit of viral success as a primary goal, advocating for long-term relationship building with audiences. Stresses the importance of gradual content development over time to foster genuine connections.
Today Greg is joined by JT Barnett, a digital creator and founder of BarnettX and CreatorX, where he helps SMBs and Fortune 500 companies create content. In this episode, Greg and JT talk about viral growth versus slow growth, tools and workflows, and creators you should be following.
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LINKS FOR THIS EPISODE: Production Team: https://www.bigoceanpodcasting.com JT Barnett: https://barnettx.com/jt https://www.tiktok.com/@jtbarnett
SHOW NOTES: 0:00 - Intro 0:47 - TikTok trends vs TikTok storytelling 5:26 - How to think about branding 19:23 - Creators to watch 28:04 - Tools and workflows for short-form content 35:11 - JT's favorite creators and why
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