\u201c80% of life is showing up,” Woody Allen said. If you never post your photo or video, you can pretty well guess the number of likes it\u2019ll garner.<\/p>\n
Instagram knows that the #1 predictor of whether a photo or video will get engagement (i.e. likes, comments) is\u00a0how quickly it gets posted<\/em>. (There’s a reason it’s not called “Latergram.”) The limitations of Instagram are what help people get across the finish line.<\/p>\n I used the nicely executed YouTube Capture<\/a>\u00a0app a bit over the holiday break. To my surprise, although it works just as advertised,\u00a0I never shared anything<\/em>\u00a0I made with it, whereas I shared half a dozen<\/a> videos I made with Instagram.<\/p>\n Instagram battles against “the paradox of choice<\/a>.” Studies show<\/a> that for every additional 401(k) plan a company offers, employee participation goes down. Why? Because when people have the option to dig in & do more research (work) to achieve the ideal outcome, they get paralyzed and don’t actually complete the mission.<\/p>\n That’s how I’m finding YouTube Capture: It’s easy to capture a bunch (i.e. more than 15 seconds) of footage, then optionally go back and trim, edit, re I’m on the hook to go back and review\/trim it, meaning that I… oh sure, I will<\/em>, soon… I swear… {life intervenes}.<\/p>\n “A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week,\u201d said George Patton. Same goes for pics & vids, General.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201c80% of life is showing up,” Woody Allen said. If you never post your photo or video, you can pretty well guess the number of likes it\u2019ll garner. Instagram knows that the #1 predictor of whether a photo or video will get engagement (i.e. likes, comments) is\u00a0how quickly it gets posted. (There’s a reason it’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10705"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}