- Hi, my name is Pete
and welcome to YouTube.
It's not often I'm approached by someone with a product
or a service that genuinely blows my mind
and has so much potential
for the future, than in the sponsors of this video.
Yep, this is a sponsored video
but genuinely just, just, just wait.
Those of you regular viewers will know
that I'm a big fan when it comes to automation
be that one home automation or business automation.
So when the sponsors of today's video approached me
about making a video, I already have my feet firmly in the
like the hell yes side of the courts.
And when we got talking
and I started to understand how powerful this tool can be
within your business.
And it also has some fun
like personal use cases too. Well now I'm really interested.
They didn't even have to pay me because well
damn if it does what I think it can do, game changer.
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So first off,
I'm going to tell you what exactly Synthesia is,
what it's capable of and how you can use it to really,
really up your game when it comes
to automating customer communications,
or just sending some cool things to your friends.
If you haven't already
then I'd also recommend you go watch this video
about active campaign automations, where I talk
about automatically onboarding your customers as this,
you know you're finding the moment,
can tie so nicely together with this.
So first of what or who is Synthesia?
Well, Synthesia are,
and I quote "on a mission to turn cameras
into code and make everybody a creator."
And that's actually pretty accurate.
In a nutshell, it is a service that uses AI to
generate stunning videos, just by typing in text
essentially saying goodbye to actors and film crews
and just all of that expensive camera gear stuff.
When you sign up, you get access
to a whole range of something like 30 plus
photo realistic avatars that you can use to
start immediately creating personalised videos
which you can then send to your customers.
And you can also choose from 40 languages
which just brings a whole new level
of personalization to things.
It is literally as simple as writing an email or a script
literally typing in the box,
what you want the computer to say
and it will both speak it and
match the lip and face movements to be pretty much spot on.
Sounds great so far right,
now the next level up is that you can actually
upload your own video to the AI system
which will in turn then generate your own avatar
or digital twin. It's video only for now
as they can't yet use AI to do the vape voice for you.
But instead you can use your face alongside
with their existing AI voices.
Simply just sit in front of a green screen
read the script a few times, send the footage to them.
And a few days later,
your own avatar would be available to use.
- As you can see here, I am Pete avatar,
and whilst I'm not perfect for those
who haven't met me before.
I'm pretty good.
- Now from here. You can just create the videos you want
with the audio one in them, just
just press a button and out pops a video at the other end.
Now the magic, the absolute gold dust
in this product is the very first question that I
asked them when I had my call with Synthesia, which was
does it hook in with Zapier?
In fact, I actually phrased it
along the lines of, you guys should look
at hooking into something like Zapier.
That would be a killer app to have, you know
access to all businesses.
And their response was just,
well, yeah it does that already.
For those of you who aren't already using Zapier
or Zapier however you call it
is basically a really simple system
where you can automate tasks. For this example,
when a new customer signs up, then do this.
When a new customer signs up, add them to our CRM system
sending a few welcome emails, order them a welcome gift,
a bottle of wine or whatever it is.
And then now we can use Synthesia to automatically,
with zero input from you,
send them a welcome email with a welcome video,
welcoming them as a customer.
That is just insane.
Just imagine the possibilities
of someone buying a product online, only to be met
with an email in their inbox
just a few minutes later saying, well, thanks, Julie
for buying you X, Y, Z product.
I hope you are happy with your purchase.
If not, feel free to drop me a message here.
And for the ITE space
someone signs up to a support agreement.
You can send them a welcome video to explain, well
what happens next?
Totally automatically completely personalised
with the person's name, the company name, maybe
the service they've signed up for and any other specifics
around their company or your offering.
It is just absolutely genuinely insane
with the possibilities of this thing.
So what I'm gonna do for you now is run you
through how my onboarding process works
and how I bring Synthesia into a real world use case.
Now flip over to active campaign
and you can see here that I have an automation
for customer onboarding within my IT coaching business.
But, what I'm gonna do now is fire off a web hook
and this web hook is going to fire over to Zapier,
or Zapier.
So let's just open that up as well.
Now in Zapier, we just create a news app
and when web hook is triggered is
our trigger for that, give it a test.
And now we're going to select Synthesia as the action.
And with this, we can now set up
what we want the person to say,
pull in the various text fields over from
from active campaign
and just a way it goes to generate that video.
It is that simple.
Now what we also want to do now is create a second zap
that fires, when a new video is created in Synthesia.
Now this can then fire the email over to that end user
or the other customer that signed up for, or purchased
or just wherever you want it to go now.
All we have to do now is just start up a new customer
and they will automatically get all of the cool stuff
like the brownies, the champagne, and a personalised
automated video to welcome and thank them for signing up.
Just how cool is the that.
You're probably thinking, Pete, this is really
really cool tech, but it's going to be stupidly expensive.
No, no, it's not at all
$30 per month for up to 10 videos.
Or you can get in touch
about more kind of corporate pricing if you want to.
That's just mind blowing.
To get 10 AI generated videos for $30 a month.
You do have to pay an additional cost to get
your own personal avatar.
Yes you do.
But it is still a pretty small cost
in comparison to what results you can get with this.
The only other things to mention
at the time of making this particular review, is
that you currently can't use Zapier, Zapier
or whatever, to generate your personalised avatars
using your own face, which is coming very, very soon.
And that to get access to the Zapier integration
you'll need to then drop them an email
just to be first invited.
But in my testing, it's been absolutely flawless.
So follow the link down below to get started, even
if you just want to play and just see what he's capable of
because it is just so mind blowing what you can do
and just how easy all of it is.
Otherwise, of course,
thank you so much for watching
and I'll see you in the next video.
Thanks. Bye-bye.