Shorten 🥱 long emails with 📹 video
Before you hit send on another long but relevant email, here's how to shorten them with video without having to delete any content
By Gregory de Souza.
Published 7/30/2021.
When an email is long enough to cause your recipient to start yawning, it's time to shorten it. But instead of deleting useful content, you can use video to visually shorten the email and make the same content far more approachable.
By why stop there? With the help of StepTree, you can do more than just make your message look shorter. That's because with StepTree's step-by-step approach to video, not only is your job easier, your recipients will find your message dramatically easier to understand.
How? Watch the explanation below to learn more, or just read on.
👉 One step for every paragraph
To take advantage of StepTree's step-by-step approach, you need to break your long email into steps. Thankfully, there's a very simple rule of thumb you can use to do just that: for every paragraph of text in your email, create at least as many steps in your StepTree. So if your email is 4 paragraphs long, you can create 4 steps in your StepTree.
📑 Your script is already written
If you wrote your email in a straightforward manner, then the parapraphs themselves can serve as your script. And thankfully, StepTree allows you to edit your script alongside your message's outline of steps.
It's important to remember that a script isn't meant to be read, it's more like a plan, it's meant to be memorized well enough so that when it comes to recording, you're not thinking on the spot, you feel prepared such that feel confident.
💪 Confidently record
With your outline of steps, and script in hand, it's time to actually record your message, but unlike the traditional way of recording video, with
StepTreefor minutes on end, instead you can confidently record yourself or your 🖥 screen, one short step at a time.
How short is a step in StepTree? Well ideally you'll be speaking for roughly 30 seconds, but in practise, StepTree allows you to record up to 1 minutes per step.
🖥 Don't just tell, show it
And while it may make sense to start your message with yourself talking, don't forget that you can follow it up on the next step with a recording of your screen. With a screen recording you can show your recipient what you're talking about, and keep them engaged every step of the way.
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