So how do you go live without actually being live? Today, I want to show you how you can
actually post a pre-recorded Facebook on your Facebook live. Let's get into it.
I have been exactly where you are right now. I ran into this exact problem. I had a campaign
that I was running where I needed to go live on Facebook every day but things came up that
I couldn't go live one of those days at that exact time. So here's what I did instead, I'm
going to walk you through the entire process of what I did. Now when I show people how they
can go live on Facebook without actually being live. The next thing that they usually ask is,
"Well, what if I want to share my screen?", "What if I want to pin a comment or split screen my live?".
Well, you're in the right place because I'm going to show you exactly how you can do all of that.
By the way, if you're utilizing Facebook lives you obviously want to get people engaged get them
watching and getting to click through on your call to action right. So if you stay through to
the end of this video, I'm also going to share with you some of the strategies that I use to keep my
audience on the edge of their seat while i'm going live. So why wouldn't you be able to go live? Well,
sometimes maybe as a busy entrepreneur you have a meeting, you have something that you can't
get out of. Maybe you're on a plane you have to be traveling somewhere. But instead of you know maybe
sending out an email or trying to communicate to your audience that you're changing the time.
Instead of dealing with that barrier or the customer service nightmare. You just pre-record
your video and push it live instead of actually doing it live. So here's the common questions that
I get for, "How do I do this?". "How do I upload a pre-recorded Facebook live to my Facebook?". Well,
I'm actually going to show you. Let's walkthrough one let's do one as an example right now, and we'll
do it in real-time in action. So just for [inaudible] we're going to record a 30-second Facebook live
video. I'm actually recording right now, here we are we're talking on Facebook live. This is going to be
a pre-recorded video. I'm going to upload it to my computer in just a second and I'm going to show
everyone watching right now how we're gonna upload this as a pre-recorded Facebook live. You ready
for it? I'm ready for it, let's go." Now, I'm gonna upload that video to my computer. You can also do
this right from your phone but just so that I can share my screen and show you how I do this. We're
going to upload it right to my computer. I'm going to airdrop that and there are multiple softwares
that you can use. But the one that I like to use is called one stream. I've included a link below that
you can use this for yourself. Now, I already have my one stream account set up that I've hooked it
up to all of my different social media accounts. I have it to multiple different Facebook groups,
Facebook pages, my Facebook profile. So I can choose if I want to actually stream it live to
one or multiple at the same time. So as you can see, here in the dashboard on the left navigation here.
You can see all the different accounts that I have connected to my one stream account. So I'm going to
go into new stream right here and it's very simple, I can even upload it from cloud storage. I just
upload it to my computer so I can drag and drop into place or find it in my files and this exact
process that I'm showing you you can do straight from your phone. So instead of me uploading it to
my computer and do it i can go to onestream.live from my phone and upload it from my camera roll on
my phone. Okay, so it's all uploaded now and as you can see I can change the thumbnail if I wanted to.
I could put a watermark, I could change the video. I'm not going to worry too much about that right
now. all I'm going to do is I'm going to title this and then below you'll see that I can schedule what
time I want to go live. So maybe I want this to go live next week and I want it to go live at noon
right on the dot and then I can choose which platforms I want to go live to, and maybe I want
to put it into my Facebook group and onto my page, and then what I can do is I can just schedule it.
So, tada, as you can see it's scheduled, it's ready to go, it's already counting down saying that it's
going to go live in 6 days 19 hours 54 minutes. You can check on it to make sure is it still going
live is everything good. You can look at your whole page of scheduled streams if you are scheduling
many of them out to make sure that all of them are in the right sequence. That they're all scheduled
out at the right time. so that's the platform that I love to use for uploading pre-recorded Facebook
lives. Now, I don't do this too much because I do prefer to be live. That way I can be engaging and
talking to my audience live. But like I said, if there's things that come up whether you're
you have to be on a plane or you have a meeting that you can't reschedule. This is a great way for
you to be able to still stick to your routine or post things when you can't actually be live.
Now the next question I usually get is how can I pin a comment on Facebook live and I personally
love to do this. Maybe one of the comments that I put on Facebook live is a call to action. Maybe
I'm talking about something and saying, "Hey, if you want to go get that go to this link and I'll put
that comment in and then pin it." It's very easy to pin a comment and whether you do that what during
the live or after. All you have to do is when you're watching the live, you just hold down on
that comment and it'll pop up to say that you can delete it react to it or pin it, very simple to pin
a Facebook live comment. The next question I get is how long can a Facebook live be? Now this depends
on the platform you're using. If you're going live from your computer like if you're right on
the Facebook desktop or you're using an external third-party software. Like, I love to use ecamm live.
That time limit gives you eight hours of streaming. If you're streaming from a mobile device. You can
stream for four hours at a time. One of the other things that I love to do on a Facebook live is
to be able to share my screen and actually demonstrate something that I'm talking about
and yes, you can still do this on a pre-recorded Facebook live as long as you're using the right
software. I would introduce you to a software that I love to use called ecamm live. You can download
it right to your desktop and you can use it to film your desktop. You can use it to film yourself.
So right now, if I go onto my desktop I can select this to film myself, hello. I can also click this to
share my screen. One thing you can do with this is you can film both. I can be filming myself in the
corner here and filming my screen. So if I decide to record this and maybe I'm teaching something
while I'm also demonstrating something on my screen and this video file will be the one that I
upload to one stream as my pre-recorded Facebook live. So this is the way that I can film myself,
film my screen. I also have the option to have a split screen functionality. As you can see, I'm
filming myself here in the corner and I can easily drag and drop this around. I can make myself bigger,
I can make myself smaller, I can take up half the screen. There's also an interview functionality
where I can bring someone in to film with me. Whether they're coming through on zoom
or coming through on skype or a different software and ecamm live is the software that I use when I
want to do a Facebook live from my computer. When I want to do a Facebook live for my phone it's
very easy. Just pull up my phone and just start talking. But when I want to go live on Facebook,
you can either go live natively right from the Facebook platform in your in your desktop browser
or you can integrate ecamm live with your Facebook account and you can decide where you want to
stream it to. Whether it's a Facebook group or your Facebook page or profile tons of different options
there. So now that I've taught you how you can uploaded a pre-recorded video to a Facebook live.
Another question I get is can I do the same for YouTube? Can I upload a pre-recorded video and
make it look like it's live on YouTube? Yes you can, by following the exact same steps that I showed you
with one stream. Just instead of choosing a Facebook page or a Facebook group. You'll also
see the option that you can connect it to your YouTube account. You can stream to Facebook and
YouTube at the same time. But you could do them 1 after another speaking of uploading a pre-recorded
video to YouTube. Some people have also asked, can I upload a Facebook live to YouTube and
yes you can, doing the exact same steps that I showed you. You take that Facebook live download it
upload it to one stream and then push it to YouTube. But I wouldn't recommend it. I think
that uploading a Facebook live video that the format and the conversation is more in a tone
that's suitable for Facebook, isn't going to be as successful on YouTube. On YouTube your
audience wants these published and produced videos Those are the ones that are going to be much more
successful. So although you can, I don't see how it's as beneficial for your strategy. Now, before
we talk about the most underutilized tool of a Facebook live. Make sure you hit that subscribe
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and grow it to six and seven figures. Make sure you hit that subscribe button. Now here is the
most underutilized tool of a Facebook live. Now obviously when you're doing these Facebook lives
you want people to be watching, you want people to be engaging, you want them to be clicking through
to whatever that thing is that you're promoting. So here's the best way to keep them engaged
and it's by adding urgency, by building suspense for your Facebook live. Now it's one thing to
post saying, "Hey, I'm going to be going live at this time." But another thing that I like to do before my
Facebook live starts is I like to add a countdown timer. That before the Facebook live starts whether
it's actually live or pre-recorded. I'll upload this countdown timer to my ecamm live software
that will play this countdown. So that when people are starting to watch it they see this like this
number flashing in their face. Which I feel like creates this tension, this excitement of
something big is coming and then boom you get to go live. Let me show you how I do this with ecamm
live. One of the other really cool functions that you have available with ecamm live is you can show
a video. So, I'm gonna go into here, I'm gonna find a countdown video they already have and you can go
to YouTube and you can download account on video. Some of them are really cool that they have music
and sound effects with them. I just have a simple one that I'll just download here.
What I can do is I could start to hit record or I could stream it live to a Facebook page right now
and I would make it, I would hit play. So that it starts and here's this countdown timer now.
Ideally, you want one that has music behind it or something that has a lot of hype to get people
excited see three, two, one, boom, and then from there I'm going to hit the camera there and then
it's on me ta-da, here we are. Another fun thing that I like to do is I'll have the countdown
timer going and then I'll actually put it right into a different video that's like a fun little
sizzle reel intro type video and then I'll bring myself on camera. Let me show you how I do that.
So we'll go into the video file. We'll hit the countdown video and I wouldn't be streaming to
the Facebook group at this point. I would have it set up to start at like the 10-second countdown.
So maybe I hit live now and so we're gonna count down 8, 7, 6 and I know already that I'm
about to go in to grab the next video that is an intro video for another show. So it's
3, 2, 1 and then here's a logo reveal that we have for a Christmas campaign we did.
And then I'll hit the camera and here we are. That could be a really cool little intro video to bring
people into your Facebook live instead of just starting it there's nothing wrong with that. But
there's an option for a way that you can create some urgency and some excitement around your
Facebook live to keep people engaged and keep them watching. If you want to learn more about
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