13:30AlexanderTheCreate · Talking Head
I Made 12 YouTube Videos in 12 Days, and It Changed My Life
Twelve days of daily uploads didn't wreck his views — it doubled his leads and rewired how starting a video feels.
July 13thThe argument in one line.
Publishing 15 videos in 15 days — instead of the usual two a month — produced far more comments and engagement even though individual view counts stayed flat, showing that upload volume itself grows a channel.
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- You post inconsistently and want evidence that a volume-focused daily-upload push actually moves engagement, not just views.
- You're a coach or consultant worried that getting good at persuasive on-camera speaking makes you manipulative.
- You're picking camera and microphone gear on a budget and want to know what actually matters for a talking-head setup.
- You're deciding whether to script and teleprompt your videos or speak off the cuff.
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- You want a hands-on editing or thumbnail-design tutorial — this is a Q&A conversation, not a production walkthrough.
- You want exhaustive camera/lens spec comparisons — the gear section is a few sentences, not a review.
The full version, fast.
Fifteen days into a self-imposed daily-upload challenge, a YouTube coach argues that comment volume — not flat or lower per-video view counts — is the real signal his channel is healthier, because it measures how many people are actually engaging rather than passively watching. He then answers viewer questions live from his comment section: ideation now happens in one batched three-hour session a week instead of ad hoc; persuasive speaking only becomes manipulation if you authentically want to control people, so noticing a pitch stops feeling true is itself a built-in check; gear (a Sony A7S III, a DJI Mic) matters less than post-processing; and the Pull-Paint-Point framework — Pull, Paint, then Point — should usually be applied once per video, not once per point, to avoid dragging the pace.
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00:00 – 00:32
01 · Cold open — the coffee bit
A comedic prop-coffee opener launches a new recurring format, "Coffee Q&A."
00:32 – 02:39
02 · 15 days, 15 videos — reading the engagement data
Reviews comment volume vs. view counts across the 30-day challenge so far and argues volume itself is the real signal.
02:39 – 07:08
03 · Q1 — How do you plan titles and ideas?
Explains batching ideation into one Monday session, and walks through which videos in the challenge worked using his own Studio dashboard.
07:08 – 07:47
04 · Sorting real questions out of the comments
A brief aside on using YouTube's AI question-search feature to find actual questions in a flooded comment section.
07:47 – 11:26
05 · Q2 — Does speaking skill become manipulation?
Answers a coach's question about authenticity vs. manipulation: real manipulation requires authentically wanting to control people, and marketing a genuinely useful product isn't manipulation.
11:26 – 13:03
06 · Camera, lens, and mic setup
Sony A7S III with a 35mm f/1.4 lens, a DJI Mic clipped with a Rode Lavalier II — and a note that gear matters less than post-processing.
13:03 – 14:50
07 · Shadow-ban check + the Pull-Paint-Point framework
A quick no on shadow-banning, then a full breakdown of Pull-Paint-Point and when it's worth stacking multiple times in one video.
14:50 – 15:40
08 · Teleprompter or no teleprompter?
Argues against teleprompters, framing off-the-cuff speaking as a trust-building "moat" in the AI era.
15:40 – 16:44
09 · Slides video pointer + outro
Answers a lost-video question by pointing to an older upload, then plugs the Pull-Paint-Point GPT tool and a follow-up video.
Lines worth screenshotting.
- Publishing 15 videos in 15 days generated far more comments than the creator's usual two-videos-a-month pace, even though per-video view counts stayed similar or lower.
- Comment volume, not view count, is the better signal of channel health because it measures how many people are actually engaging, not just passively watching.
- A three-hour Monday ideation session, batching every title and concept for the week, replaced an earlier one-hour-per-day approach that produced weaker videos.
- Videos built from outliers found on other creators' channels in different niches performed better than videos with no reference point, but still underperformed videos based on the creator's own proven formats.
- True manipulation would require someone to authentically want to control other people — most creators who worry about 'manipulating' an audience with speaking skill don't actually have that desire.
- Feeling like a pitch or a video no longer feels authentic is itself a built-in check — noticing that discomfort is the signal to rewrite or scrap the idea before publishing.
- Marketing isn't manipulation when the product genuinely helps the people it's aimed at — the goal becomes filtering in the right people, not tricking anyone.
- A high-end camera and lens (Sony A7S III with a 35mm f/1.4 lens) look only marginally better than a camera costing a fraction of the price.
- Clean audio comes less from the microphone itself (a DJI Mic clipped with a Rode Lavalier II) and more from post-processing: compression and EQ applied afterward.
- The Pull-Paint-Point framework structures a talking point as: Pull (why this point matters), Paint (an analogy or story before the reveal), then Point (the actual lesson plus action steps).
- Stacking multiple Pull-Paint-Points onto every point in a video risks dragging pacing — it works best applied once, across an entire video building to one epiphany, not to every point individually.
- Skipping a teleprompter forces a creator to develop the ability to speak off the cuff, which becomes a durable trust-builder in an era where AI makes scripted content trivial to fake.
What 15 Days of Daily Uploads Actually Taught
WHAT TO LEARN
Posting volume, honest self-checks, and a repeatable point-structure matter more to a channel's health than expensive gear or clever manipulation tactics.
0215 days, 15 videos — reading the engagement data
- Comment volume tracked across a 15-day daily-upload run outpaced comments from the creator's usual twice-a-month schedule, even while individual video view counts held steady or dropped.
- Raw per-video view counts can look flat or worse during a volume push, but they don't capture the compounding effect of simply publishing more often.
03Q1 — How do you plan titles and ideas?
- A single three-hour ideation session on a fixed day each week produced consistently stronger videos than daily ad-hoc title picking.
- Videos modeled on outlier formats borrowed from creators in other niches beat videos with no reference point, but still underperformed videos built on the creator's own already-proven angles.
- Tracking which videos spike and which flop week over week is what let the creator diagnose that a strategy shift was needed partway through the run.
05Q2 — Does speaking skill become manipulation?
- Worrying that your communication skill might be used to manipulate people usually means you don't actually want to manipulate anyone — real manipulation requires authentically wanting to control others.
- Noticing that a pitch or video no longer feels true is itself a built-in check: that discomfort is the signal to rewrite it before publishing, not after.
- Marketing stops being manipulative once you're filtering an audience toward a product that genuinely helps the people who buy it, rather than tricking people into buying.
06Camera, lens, and mic setup
- A high-end camera and lens combo looks only marginally better than a camera costing a fraction of the price — gear upgrades show diminishing visual returns.
- Clean-sounding audio comes more from post-processing (compression and EQ) applied after recording than from the microphone itself.
07Shadow-ban check + the Pull-Paint-Point framework
- A sudden dip in views on one video usually isn't a shadow ban — check overall channel health before assuming a platform penalty.
- The Pull-Paint-Point framework breaks a single point into three moves: Pull sells why it matters, Paint sets it up with a story or analogy, and Point delivers the lesson plus concrete action steps.
- Stacking multiple Pull-Paint-Points onto every point in a video risks dragging the pace — the framework works best applied once across an entire video building to one big idea, not repeated per point.
08Teleprompter or no teleprompter?
- Skipping a teleprompter forces the harder skill of speaking off the cuff, which builds a kind of audience trust that scripted delivery doesn't, and becomes a differentiator now that AI makes polished scripted content trivial to produce.
09Slides video pointer + outro
- Older videos in a channel's back catalog can still answer new viewer questions — pointing people to a specific prior video is often faster than re-explaining a concept from scratch.
Terms worth knowing.
- Pull-Paint-Point (PPP)
- A three-step structure for making a point in a video: Pull sells why the point matters, Paint offers an analogy or story to set it up, and Point delivers the actual lesson with action steps.
- 30 Day Talking to Camera Challenge
- A paid program and community the creator runs where members record on-camera videos daily for 30 days to build confidence and speaking skill.
Things they pointed at.
11:25productSony A7S III
11:45productSony G Master 35mm f/1.4 lens
12:21productDJI Mic (gen 1)
12:41productRode Lavalier II
03:36link"Give me seven minutes and you'll never say um again" (earlier video)
15:59link"Speak like this on YouTube to 10x your business" — the slides method video
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01:23
“I've published 15 videos in fifteen days when I would usually publish like two a month.”
09:50
“I don't fucking believe in this. I'm actually — scratch this. I'm not gonna do this.”
15:25
“Learning how to speak off the cuff is such a — it's a moat.”
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00:00Guys, today I am feeling the pizzazz just pulsating through my entire body.
00:06I have an extremely fancy coffee and an extremely fancy mug.
00:15 and mahogany. And I'm gonna be answering a bunch of your questions today.
00:22New format, it's called the coffee q and a. I'm bringing it back. I did this like ten years ago.
00:26Today, I'm starting a new brand new exciting series called coffee q and a. Let's go.
00:34Fancy keyboard shortcuts. Love it. Right.
00:38This this this is my comment section. Now, I was just going through this before making this video and it's pretty pretty intense.
00:46Like one thing I've noticed about making a video every single day on this channel for the last fifteen days is, you know, I could look at the I could look at the views and be like, sweet.
00:59You know, again, some three thousands, some two thousands, some one thousands, some 10 thousands, but all within fifteen days.
01:07And so I could kind of look at that and be like, my overall channel performance, my overall, you know, views per video are are pretty similar to what they usually are or even a bit lower because some of my my videos would often get like 5,000 views. But that does not account for volume.
01:25Right? I've published 15 videos in fifteen days when I would usually publish like two a month. And so when I actually look at my comments, I have so many more comments than I normally would.
01:35Like, it's absolutely insane. These these are all like within one day or thirteen hours. And then just keep on going and going and going.
01:42It's just insane the amount of comments, which to me is a really good sign because all of you guys are engaging.
01:49Right? And there's so much more content for you to engage with. There's so many more people engaging, which is always an amazing sign for the health of a channel, the health of a business, a personal brand.
02:01It's like this is the actual stuff that counts, like the actual amount of people who are showing up and interacting with your stuff, which is sick. The problem is for making a video like this is this it's just too many and actually not very many of them are questions.
02:14I was quite surprised. I guess I I asked you guys for some questions very early on in this in this channel, but in this in this challenge, sorry.
02:23But recently, there've been a lot less sort of specific questions and general comments. So I'm gonna pick a few from here, and then I found out this thing in the comment section where you can search for specific questions, and then it will hopefully bring up the actual questions that you guys are asking.
02:39When do you plan titles and ideas? Do you have a bit of a list built up that you're just planning for tomorrow's idea during the day? Cool.
02:45This is by Luca Bade. Welcome, Luca. So in the context of this thirty day challenge, right, it's a video every day for fifteen days.
02:55When am I coming up with ideas? What I've been doing is trying to batch ideas on a Monday.
03:02And so on the Monday, I'm doing a quite a lot of ideation, which is usually about three hours of work where I'll just focus on coming up with the best titles and video concepts that I can.
03:18And I think without doing that, I would be seeing way less success on this challenge right now.
03:25And what's interesting is when I go to my videos here, I wasn't doing this.
03:32So this is the video where I started this thirty day challenge. I was doing this I started doing this at this video here.
03:38Give me seven minutes and you'll never say um again. Before then, I was just kind of coming up with like titles that I quickly thought of and thought would do well.
03:48Because my intention starting out in this challenge was I'm gonna spend like an hour in this a day and then have the rest of my day for myself. That was my intention. Right?
03:56So it was even stricter. It wasn't only one video a day. It was like only spend one hour on one video a day.
04:02And, you know, this video did well. This one less so. This one less so.
04:07This one not really good at all. And then I was like, right. I need to I think around around here, I was like, need a new strategy here.
04:17And I I would like to turn this into more of a a business experiment to see how how well I can, uh, get new leads and new views into my channel. And so around here, I started this ideation process. I think this was actually a Monday when I made this video.
04:31I went through a bit of a dip where I was like, I need to rethink what I'm doing here. And so I sat down and came up with as many ideas as I possibly could, ideating all of these ideas.
04:41You can actually see it. Wonder if I can get this up for you. And so I made this document on that Monday after making like five videos, and I said something like, I I actually This this is just notes to myself.
04:51I started writing. I'm trying to make YouTube videos to get views, bring in clients, build a community, keep people coming back, and be genuine self expressing on purpose, big ass, but let's see if we can get there. Right now, I need a system.
05:01And so I just started writing out all these ideas, a little bit of self motivation, get my get my shit together, get some of thoughts together. And, yeah, this was sort of my scratch pad.
05:11I started writing all these different ideas. And these videos here, video six, seven, eight, I was experimenting with looking at outliers on YouTube.
05:22So some of these videos here I was like, I think this one was based on one of Vin Yang's videos where he had a video something like this forces you to speak coherently in meetings or something like that.
05:33It's like, well, this forces you to speak coherently on YouTube. Great. And they did alright.
05:37Like, those some of these videos here, I think these three these four actually were based on outliers that had done well on other people's channels and other niches.
05:47And they did better than these ones, but not great. And in the middle of that, I made this video, which was called speak like this to make YouTube videos of zero editing. That was actually based on a video that had done well on my channel before, which was this one.
06:02It was a how to talk to camera naturally without a script with the one take in the thumbnail. And I just thought, right. Without a script, what's even better than not scripting?
06:10Well, the ultimate is just making videos in one take and never having to edit. Like, that's an amazing thing, and I do that quite a lot. So I'm gonna make a video about that, and it did great.
06:19And now I made a video with instead of zero edits in the title, I put it in the thumbnail to switch things up, and I made this a bit more topical like this is what's happening on YouTube right now, which is true. There's lot of videos doing really well with no editing.
06:31And so I made a video about that from a from a perspective of this is why this is working. Here's the psychology of a one take video with no editing. This this is why this format works.
06:41And this one's currently I think it started out as a one out of 10. I think it's a three out of 10 now, but it's doing really well as well. So that's a sort of long winded answer to your question.
06:51That's it's it's I don't have a a specific ideation process. I'm sort of doing it in this messy way on this one big Notion document, and that's kind of how I'm doing things at the moment.
07:02I think these as I said, a lot of these aren't questions questions. They're sort of comments.
07:07So I'm just gonna go here, use this AI feature which is questions, and hopefully it will give me quite a lot of your questions. New content creators here.
07:19I'm here, bot now. I see this comment all the time.
07:23It's like, new content creators. Let's gather together. This is quite a funny comment because it's like, cool.
07:29Now what? Reiner k. This is an amazing question by Reiner.
07:33Good question. How do I join your class? The thirty day talking to camera challenge, link is in the description below.
07:39You can just join it. Oh, yeah. I saw this one.
07:41This is quite an interesting question. Yeah. Let's let's sort of go into it.
07:44Think it's a bit philosophical.
07:47Here's my question being a coach from Germany. How do you make sure this is by credonist credonist.
07:53How do you make sure that you don't use your speaking skills that you clearly have and your ability to communicate authentically to manipulate others? I suspect this is a temptation especially if you wanna achieve your goals. In the end, you have to earn money and you wanna be successful and market yourself with personal branding.
08:07In other words, how do you make sure to not reduce the ability to be authentic as a means to an end?
08:14Yeah. I mean, there's there's quite a lot in this question.
08:21And to be able to communicate authentically, like, if I was if one was to communicate authentically to manipulate others, that would mean that you'd have to authentically want to manipulate other people.
08:36And so I I I don't think many of us I think there's many people in this world who are like, I authentically like, heartfelt authentically wanna manipulate people.
08:49There are some people, I'm sure, but I think most people here are not like that.
08:56And so that's the amazing thing about communicating authentically is that it's kind of a filter. It's a bit of a check to be like, okay.
09:04Like, let's say I'm making a video and maybe I'm not feeling authentic. And maybe I don't know.
09:10Maybe I'm I'm feeling a bit like I'm maybe I'm selling an idea or a concept that isn't really true or something like that. Or maybe I feel like I'm pitching my program like aggressively or something like that. And then I'm I'm at some point, I'm like, ugh, this doesn't feel authentic.
09:26Like, I've I've come outside of myself a bit here, and I'm not actually being authentic anymore. So if I could come back into my authenticity, how would I approach this? Well, if I'm trying to sell an idea, let's say I'm making a video that I don't actually fully believe in, and I'm like just doing it for the views or for business or whatever, then coming back to my authenticity, I'd be like, well, I don't fucking believe in this.
09:47I'm actually scratch this. I'm not gonna do this. I wanna I wanna make a video that is true.
09:51Right? That's that's an example of your authenticity making you more credible to yourself and to others.
09:59And so I think the question in itself is is a is an interesting one.
10:09Because also your what you're also assuming is that you have to sort of manipulate people to achieve your goals, but that's just not true.
10:20Right? So you can see it as manipulation. Like, oh, I'm manipulating my YouTube audience to buy my programs and, join my email list.
10:29Oh. But it's like the amount of people that I see come out of my program and leave a glowing testimonial that and literally say this is life changing. At some point, it's my job.
10:41It's my responsibility to try and get lots of people into that program that I know will do amazing things for them.
10:50So there's the manipulation is a is a is a strange word to use in this context, and I don't really think it's it's that relevant.
11:02Because if you have a product that you know will help certain people, then you create marketing to to filter out the right people to only attract the people who are gonna be benefited by this product, and then make the product amazing, and then there's no manipulation happening because you're just trying to do something good, basically.
11:26Awesome. May I ask your question and lens setup, my good man? Thank you for time and knowledge.
11:32Yeah. So my camera and lens setup damn.
11:36I should have gone gone full screen for that last one. That would have been so much better. My camera lens setup was is a Sony a seven s three, which is filming me right now.
11:47And my lens is a g master 35 millimeter 1.4.
11:54It's pretty expensive setup. You don't need it.
12:00I used I I got started out with a 500 pound camera twelve years ago, and I'm sure a $5,600 or whatever that is, $700 camera now would look very similar to this.
12:14So if you want my specific look, there's my gear. You don't have to spend that much money though.
12:21What microphone I'm using? Yeah. I'm using a DJI mic.
12:24This is a Shure mic but I'm I'm assuming you're not referring to that because I don't use this in most of my videos. Use a DJI mic. I've got like the the version one or whatever it is.
12:33It comes in this box. I've got the first generation. I'm sure the newer ones are even better.
12:38And then I plug that into a Rode Lavalier two. So plugs in here, and then I just clip this to my to my shirt.
12:48And that's how have great audio quality. A lot of it comes in the post processing as well to add some compression, eq, etcetera etcetera to the audio to make it sound better, but that is the source.
13:032,000 views nine days ago. What's wrong with YouTube? Are you shadow banned or something?
13:07No. I'm not shadow banned. Things are going pretty well.
13:10Can you have multiple pull point pull paint points for each point or not just story but a story and an example? Yeah.
13:18So anyone who doesn't know what the pull paint point method is, this is a method of communicating in your YouTube videos that makes your information feel new, fresh, and very easily understandable. The pull is selling the point.
13:31So it's basically like this point I'm about to make is important because then the paint is before you actually make the point, give an analogy or in a story to explain the point, and then you actually give the point in the action steps. And so you're saying, can you have multiple pool paint points for each point?
13:48You can. I wouldn't necessarily recommend it. I mean, you totally can.
13:51There's no there's not like rules really to follow. This is just like a framework that can help guide you.
13:56So if you find that you that helps you explain it much more, then great. The risk there is that you start spending a lot of time on each point and you might not wanna do that.
14:07Where I can see this working is if you're making a ten minute video and you have like one point in the video and it's more of a it's a slower video, it's more of a mindset video maybe you're giving one big epiphany across the video towards the end and you wanna have a pool paint point within that entire video.
14:25So the pool almost is like the intro, the paint is the sort of the analogy, and then the point is the mic drop, the epiphany moment towards the end. Then within that you might have like a couple of stories, a couple of examples to illustrate and really sort of communicate that point well.
14:39But if you've got a video with five points and then you're using different stories and analogies and metaphors for every single point, I think it's gonna be too much. So auto cue or no auto cue? Yeah.
14:48Teleprompter or no teleprompter. I'm a big fan of the no teleprompter. I'm a huge fan of learning how to speak with freedom and not having to be tied to a teleprompter.
14:58They can help. Right? Teleprompters can help.
15:01Not against teleprompters. And I think they've helped a lot of people on YouTube. I just think that if you're relying on a teleprompter, you're missing out on such a valuable skill set to build, is being able to speak off the cuff.
15:11And I also think a lot I mean, I've probably said this in a million videos, but there's a lot of authenticity and human connection and trust that comes from not using teleprompters. And I think in the age of AI right now, learning how to speak off the cuff is such a .
15:27Cool. Another question from English with Maureen. This one really hit home for me.
15:29You're so good at identifying Nuance behaviors. I think that might be your unfair advantage and so valuable. I have a question that I asked before, but it may have got lost.
15:36You made a video some time back about using slides, I really like that idea. But when I went to look for it again, I can't find it. Yeah.
15:43Sure. The slides video, you scroll down. By the way, guys, like, if you're new here because of this thirty day challenge that I'm doing, there is a lot there's a lot of gold to be mined from the videos that I've made before.
15:58This one, the slide method. Speak like this on YouTube to 10x your business.
16:01There I go over a method of recording where you can use slides like I'm doing in this video to share your points and present, and it sort of keeps you on track and it can be really helpful.
16:13Awesome. Hope you guys enjoyed that video. Just on that pull point paint question, I forgot to mention there is a pull point paint pull paint point GPT in the description below, and that will help you map out your points in your videos in a way that's really efficient, save you time, and help you come up with great ideas as well.
16:31Also, you want an accompanying video to explain exactly how to use the pull paint point method to make better videos, then watch this video next. It will walk you through exactly how to do that.
The Hook
The bait, then the rug-pull.
Fifteen days into a daily-upload challenge, a fancy-coffee bit gives way to real data: comments up, views flat — and a run of viewer questions about ideation, authenticity, gear, and a named framework for making a point land.
Named ideas worth stealing.
13:13model
Pull-Paint-Point
- Pull — sell why the point matters
- Paint — an analogy or story before the reveal
- Point — the actual lesson plus action steps
A three-beat structure for delivering one idea in a video so it feels new, earned, and easy to understand, rather than just stated.
Steal forany video segment or sales page section that needs to land a single lesson memorably
How they asked for the click.
VERBAL ASK
16:21product
“there is a pull point paint pull paint point GPT in the description below, and that will help you map out your points in your videos”
Ties the tool plug directly to the audience question it just answered (about the PPP framework), then closes with a next-video pointer rather than a hard sell.
MENTIONED ON CAMERA
FROM THE DESCRIPTION
PRIMARY CTAWhere the creator wants you to go next.
OTHER LINKSAlso linked in the description.
Visual structure at a glance.
