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New blog posts every week about YouTube, Premiere Pro, After Effects, Productivity, and Mindset.

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Why Premiere Pro?

I've created over 700 YouTube videos (roughly 450 for my own channel and 250 for clients) and I've made about 600 of those using Adobe Premiere Pro. 
In this blog post, I'll explain why.

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How to get your viewers hooked

Did you know you often lose the largest chunk of your audience within the first few seconds of your video? If your opening doesn’t grab viewers immediately, they’re gone. In this blog post, I will share how you can improve your “hooks”.

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Why more views is not better (for your YouTube channel)

Everyone wants views on their videos and more subscribers to their YouTube channel but getting more views is not always better. More views can sometimes actually hurt your channel more than it helps the channel.

In this blog post, I will share why that is the case and what you should do instead to help your channel grow.

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Your best career path

Your parents are wrong. Let me explain why.

As you go through life and try to navigate different career options, it is common to seek advice or look to people ahead of you for guidance.

That is not always the best move.

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Why YouTube? (How one platform can change your life)

When I was a kid, I didn't have access to YouTube.

Not because my parents kept me from it - it just didn’t exist yet!
(In fact, I don’t think we even had a computer with internet until I was 12.)

In this blog post, I will share how this platform went from “nonexistent” to life-changing, in just a couple of years.

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Why “working more” is a bad idea

There's a common misconception about work that we need to address.
Everywhere we look, we see advice about "working hard", "working more", and "hustling".
In this blog post, I'll explain why that's bad advice and what we should do instead.

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How to make great YouTube thumbnails

Creating effective YouTube thumbnails can be tricky because you're trying to communicate a lot of information in a really small space. You want to describe in words what the video is about but also show some kind of image or illustration.

In this blog post I will share some tips regarding what to think about when it comes to designing a great YouTube thumbnail.

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My last blog post (in this format)

These blog posts will change. ✂️

For almost 2 years, I have been sending out a collection of social media posts from the previous week (on various topics) as a newsletter. Images, videos, texts, carousels, tweets...
These newsletters have then been repurposed as blog posts.

But now, this will change.

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Trending vs Evergreen - What videos should you do?

You’ve probably heard of the terms “trending” and “evergreen” videos when you study YouTube and how to grow on the platform.

But what is the difference and what type of videos should you make?

In this short blog post I’m explaining this with two practical examples from my own channel (with 5,5 million views).

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