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Tools for Consistency: A Creator's Guide to Streamlined Content Production

• Jermaine Pulliam • Season 1 • Episode 89

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Ever wonder how some creators seem to effortlessly publish content every single day? The secret isn't superhuman productivity—it's smart systems. After years of struggling with consistency, I've finally cracked the code that allowed me to publish five videos across three platforms in just six days, all while maintaining my sanity.

In this candid solo episode, I pull back the curtain on my exact content creation workflow, sharing the three digital tools that have transformed my production process. First, discover how a task management system can prevent your brilliant content ideas from evaporating before execution. Learn how I organize platform-specific content calendars, create reusable project templates, and ensure nothing falls through the cracks. Next, explore how I use Notion as my "second brain" to store everything from scripts to business plans that I can access from any device, anywhere.

Most importantly, I reveal my newest game-changer: an AI-powered content repurposing tool that automatically transforms my long-form videos into platform-specific shorts, complete with titles and descriptions, ready for distribution with a single click. This alone has saved me countless hours of reformatting and republishing work. Whether you're just starting your content journey or looking to scale your existing operation, these practical tools and tips will help you establish the consistent presence that's essential for meaningful growth. Remember, you never know which video will catch the eye of a sponsor or passionate new fan—but they can't find you if you're not consistently showing up.

Ready to transform your content creation process? Listen now, and don't forget to share this episode with other creators struggling with consistency. Have questions? Send a text through the link in the description, and I might answer it in an upcoming episode!

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Speaker 1:

Welcome, welcome back to another episode of Uploaded and Unfiltered, a podcast in which I, your host, jermaine, interviews another content creator in regards to their journey thus far. This week is a solo episode and I wanted to drop a few pieces of advice more, rather, programs that I use to help me in aiding me in getting content out on a weekly basis, because, as we all know, content creation can run a toll on you when you're trying to be consistent and I did know being consistent is the key to everything you didn't know being consistent is the key to everything. The more content you have up, the more eyeballs you're going to get on your content, the better your chances are to have someone see your content that can make an instrumental change in your life, whether it be a sponsor or just a new fan. You have no idea who's watching your content, and I think we need to keep that in mind and move accordingly. So today, before we are done, I am going to go over three programs possibly four, I don't know. We'll see that. I use to help me create content on the fly and the last thing has gotten me. In the last six days, I've had five videos go up on three platforms and all I had to do was click a button for the most part. So I will share that at the end. But before we get started, like always, if you haven't shared this podcast with other content creators or friends who like to hear about content creation, what are you waiting for? Share this podcast with them, uploaded and unfiltered. We are in episode I believe 88. We are rounding the corner on episode 100. And again, we haven't missed a week yet and I don't plan on doing so. So grab your snacks, get your pen or your tablet whatever you use to take notes and let's get started Now.

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The first thing that I use I would highly recommend because it aids in keeping consistent by providing you with information at a glance. I think one of the biggest reasons why content creators don't stay consistent is because, a to have too many ideas. B they don't write these ideas down. And c when they do write these ideas down, they might just write what the video should be like. For instance, I am in the middle of planning to do a monster hunter video. It's real simple. It's gonna be a short. It might be like 15, 20 seconds. It's gonna be my training regimen, for when I play. Monster hunter is a hammer main. Cut out to all my hammer mains out there. If you don't use a hammer, uh, you're missing out a lot of fun.

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But I use a in the program. Or first one is things. Things is a task management program. Now you can use any program that will allow you to write tasks and highlight different things and check things off. I believe Notes finally updated their application on iOS so it works a lot better. But Things I use because it shows up on my mac, my ipad and my apple apple watch, so I'm able to see all my tasks and projects on any device that I'm on. So the way that things works the reason why I love it so much.

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Let's say I had an idea pop up my head um, I want to do a video on which I try to guess the Pokemon from some random site. I write that idea down in things and I give it a today date someday or other. So basically, anything to any time. I look into today tab, it's anything that I need to get done immediately. Family emergencies go in there, like calling the doctors for prescriptions or setting up appointments. All of those things get put into that today category. If it's a video idea, I put that in the platform in which it will live. So I have surprisingly, I have two, three YouTube channels, two TikTok channels, two Instagram channels, only one Twitch, but every one of those are broken into their own category and under that category will be the tasks associated with it.

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So, anytime that I invite a new guest to the podcast, a task is created. Anytime it's time to edit an episode of the podcast, a task is created. Anytime it's time to edit an episode of the podcast, a task is created. Anytime that I need to edit a video, a task is created. And the reason why I love things is because you can create projects that you can just duplicate once you close them. So I have a project set up for guests to podcast. Under that project, there is five things that I need to do to ensure that I get everything I need done for my guests. That way, whenever I invite a guest to the show, I open up a new task, I put their name as a heading and then I just go down the list Invite, send them a Discord message, send them an invite. Make sure that you schedule it in Riverside, make sure you schedule it in Calendly, make sure that they fill out the survey. All that stuff gets tackled because of this project that I've created within things.

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So my number one suggestion is if you don't have a way to categorize or track your task, look into that, look into finding one. I think I'm going to look into other ones just so I can give a few options for people. And you know what? I might actually use notes for like a week or two just to see what that feels like. But I've heard good things about notes and that's what everybody else in the house uses notes. So probably can't go wrong with that. Probably can't go wrong with that.

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Now, next up on my list of things that I utilize that help me stay consistent when it comes to content creation, and that is, and that next thing is notion. Again, I spoke about notion briefly in the past. I continue to use it. I didn't pony up the money for whatever extra bells and whistles they provide you when you pay the subscription. I'm still using it as my very large dumping ground for everything that has to do with my content, with my business. It all goes in, goes in there. So I have goals in there, I have scripts in there, I have business plans in there, I have workout sheets, I have worksheets for my clients, I have all types of things in there.

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And again, because Notion is platform agnostic, I can open it up on any device I have take a look at my list, take a look at my scripts and be good to go. I don't really have anything huge to say there. I'm sure there are amazing things you can do with the notion, like I've seen somebody set up a website anytime that they did like a new, let's say, event for their stream. It was set up a new website within notions. Share that out and then they just change it on the fly without any hassle. I'm not trying to do all that, but the option is there if you want it. But yeah, other than that, it's just nice to be able to search, basically, my brain, because anything I come up with ideas, concepts all goes in here and I could just do a quick search and be like have I written this down yet? Nine times out of 10, I did, and that's always fun. But Notion is awesome, really like it, highly recommend it. If you haven't checked it out, it's free and you check it out for free, so you should probably go do that.

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And now the last thing that I want to share, and I will preface this by saying this the versions I have does cost money, but the help that it provides me the speed in which I can cut a clip up and throw it up on three different platforms has saved me so much time over the last two weeks, so I purchased this. Oh damn, no, I think it was about a month ago. The program is called Opus clip. Now there's an app for it, but I'm using it through the website and essentially this is what happens. So my last video was the second in a series that I'm doing for the edcgatewaycom fidget subscription boxes. I just knocked out that video. It's about a nine to 10 minute video.

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Typically, in the past, what I would do is, once I exported it out of DaVinci, I would then go back, change the format to horizontal or vertical whatever you know the long form, 9 by 16, and then go through the video again and start cutting clip, and I would have to do that for every video. Now that shit's time consuming and I wanted a better way to make clips and get them out as content and shout out to the homie, dj Killzone Jones. After our podcast, he mentioned Opus Clip, which I've seen billions of videos for, but I don't know why I just For some reason, because I saw AI, I was just not allowing myself to even entertain the thought of using it got over that shit. I went and checked it out, signed up for a a trial version and my first video I cut was a tech and video, and the cool thing about it is you basically just feed the program your URL, click a link, and you can tell it what types of things to look for. You can tell it on what to look to or who to specify, and you can change the layout. You can change everything about the clip, but the program then goes and just clips starts clipping. The first time, I think I got 25 clips out of a. I want to say that video was like 15 minutes long. Were they all great? No, most of them, I would say most of 60% of them, were usable, and so after that you pick which one you want.

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It comes with a title. It comes with key keywords. It comes with a title. It comes with key keywords. It comes with a description. I usually change the title and description and I usually pare down the keywords, but then you then you link in your instagram, your tiktok, your twitter, your youtube, whatever programs you use to push short content you tie them into the system. Once that's done, you you pick what you want, you hit post and you pick which platforms it goes to and it shows you all of the description and title boxes for each platform and you hit go Within three to four minutes, all however many videos you uploaded. For me right now it's three videos, or one video to three platforms. Once you upload, it takes like three to four minutes for it to go live and that's it. And the reason why I'm doing this now and the reason why I'm so excited about it is because I've always had a dream of just having a short piece of content up every day, and I did that. I used to do it all the time in December that's when I did my advent calendar. It's very possible and the traction you get from that is just it's different.

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With Opus Clip, I'm able to shoot my video, edit my video, throw it up here, get it nice and ready for YouTube. While I was doing that, opus Clip is making me clips that I can start scheduling out for the week. So right now, what's today, 17th? Let me take a look. The last video I did was a radiant reflection video on the autonomic nervous system. It's a dope video. If you haven't checked it out, go to Radiant Reflection on YouTube, radiant Reflection OS and watch that video, or watch the clips that are going to be coming out Over the next five days.

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I have 15 posts happening, so it's three videos over three different platforms. I believe Something like that. Regardless, I can open up the calendar and look at it and it just looks like it's full. I still have the 21st and 22nd to do, but it takes me. If I'm being realistic, if I sit down for an hour, I can probably schedule out the whole week of videos from something that I already made, and I can go back to old videos that I made and cut clips of that with no problem. Oh my gosh.

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So let me, in conclusion this software is dope, definitely check it out, and if you're a content creator looking to get consistent, sometimes you need to spend money to do it. Is it necessary? No, do you have to do it? No, but I would suggest seeing how much it costs and figuring out a way to get that fee handled, because, if I'm looking at this correctly, my YouTube has been constantly going up every week because I've been posting shorts, I've been streaming there live and I'm trying to do no, I'm not trying, I'm going to do a video a week there because, again, in order to hit those numbers on YouTube, in order to start getting paid for the content that we're making, we need to be consistent, figure out what your consistency looks like, figure out a routine and a way to get you there and then start doing it.

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I am very excited where I am in my content creation career. Right now. I am on the brink of bringing in clients, more clients, into the business, because I just I don't know where this excitement came from, but I'm there, I'm super excited about everything and I love that. So if anything I said resonated with you, or if you have any questions about anything in content creation, definitely hit me up and find me on all socials either Kryptonite or Radiant Reflection on TikTok or uploading unfiltered on either Instagram or YouTube. I'm all over the place. Also, check the link in the description.

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You can send a text to the podcast and I will read it or hear it live on air and answer it for you, unless it's crazy. If it's crazy crazy, we'll just listen to it and we'll make fun. I'm just kidding. Other than that, I appreciate y'all for listening and thank you for being on this journey with me. It's it's about to get crazy. It's about to get crazy. I just have this feeling that something monumental is about to happen and I'm ready. I'm ready for it. So, other than that, thank you for listening, appreciate you as always and, as always, keep creating content. I'll see you in the next one. Peace you.