While many editors’ origin stories start with a love of literature, Lacey Knight’s started with a disdain for the English language as a whole. Throughout her early life, Lacey viewed English as just another thing to “know” rather than a tool to be leveraged. (Spoiler Alert: That changed.)
Lacey’s calling was delayed because it was delivered in Spanish. As Lacey learned “por favor” and “gracias,” she also learned about the nature of language: its movement, its rhythm, its significance, and most importantly, its place in her life.
Lacey realized just how connected she was to the power of expression behind language, rooting her career in a love for the written word while utilizing her passion and truly-honed skill to help others reach their goals through copywriting, ghostwriting, and blogging.
“I know there are amazingly talented people out there who have a lot to offer but who may not have the tools to best reach their target audience in a relevant and effective way,” says Lacey. “I hope to be a cog in the wheel that gets these great people to where they are going; you achieving your dream is my dream.”
Lacey has always been a dream-catcher, capturing the beauty of achievement and knowledge, as well as a seeker of Truth, even before she knew what that meant.
Fostering love in everything, even from afar, is one thing Lacey does exceptionally well (which admittedly comes in handy in the marketing world). Before Lacey had access to her true love, equines, she sat on the sidelines learning about them, growing love and expertise before she even got in the saddle.
Viewing life as art in action, Lacey has joined the Gravity Junction team from the painted skies of Colorado. She and her family are nestled below a mountain range with plenty of beautiful horses nearby to keep her passions burning with fervor.
You can rest easy knowing Lacey is certainly wearing matching socks and is readily open to debate herself about comma placements and capitalization. (The nature of language, amiright?)
Having Lacey in our corner is having another advocate in your corner, something we always aim for.
“I often tell people, ‘I’m better in writing.’ They think I am joking.” However, Lacey’s talent is no joke, and we’re beyond blessed to have her here in the saddle at Gravity Junction.
An Athens Georgia native, Nickie’s roots are grounded in the same familiar areas that Gravity Junction calls home. Introverted at first, getting to know Nickie on a deeper level, like many good things in life, takes time. Her words are always meaningful and poignant, and the relationships she treasures are earned. Gotta say, we love and appreciate this quality about Nickie. Not to mention, listening is her superpower, a skill this world desperately needs!
As an Emannuel College grad, Nickie studied business administration, consistently made the Deans and Presidents Lists, and graduated Magna Cum Laude.
Not only is Nickie incredibly bright, but she’s also a stinkin’ great person. Nickie has traveled the world to help others through missionary work. Her travels extended to New York, Africa, Honduras, and Thailand. She brings a boatload of experience to her office managing role. This may have something to do with the fact she’s been working in accounting and office roles since she was, oh you know, 17 years old. NBD.
When she’s not crunching numbers or ensuring offices run smoothly, you can find Nickie shopping, thrifting, or hanging with her puppy-eyed fur babies, Junior and Daisy.
“I just want others to be able to say that I do my job, and I do it well. I like to make the lives of those around me easier and more functional. Your work is safe in my hands.”
We’re BEYOND pumped to have this hardworking overachiever join our team.
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Kari is a Chicagoan with a penchant for dipping sauces, warm weather, copywriting, and content creation. From a young age, Kari knew she wanted to be a writer and decided in junior high school that she would someday become a journalist. Well, as you may know, print journalism took a hit (newspapers just aren’t making the same splash they used to) and Kari pivoted her career aspirations as a student at Illinois State University.
Graduating with a degree in public relations, Kari started her career as an intern at a large PR firm but quickly learned that digital marketing was more of her forte. From there, Kari left the agency world and spent time at both nonprofit organizations and in corporate settings.
After cutting her teeth for five years in traditional 9 – 5 roles, Kari took a leap of faith and took her career into her own hands, deciding to pursue freelance marketing. In December of 2019, fate so happened to introduce her to Gravity Junction and since then she has taken on roles with the SupaNova team writing blogs, editing copy, and drafting social media for a handful of clients.
When she’s not behind a computer screen, you can find Kari milling about the city, trying out new bars and restaurants, exploring different neighborhoods, and walking through (and enjoying White Claws in) her favorite parks.
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You would have to be living under a rock to not know what YouTube is, however you may not know about the efficacy of SEO for YouTube (SEO=Search Engine Optimization).
I can assist you with that 🙂
YouTube is the dominant platform where you can consume information on just about any subject, such as, entertainment, educational or mind-numbing topics alike, in video format.
But what you may not realize is the SEO power the platform can give your brand.
You may be thinking, but it’s YouTube, not my website…how in the devil is YouTube going to help your own SEO value increase?
Well, let me shed some light on that.
SEO YouTube Elements
Keywords
Backlinks
Optimized YouTube video descriptions
Keyword-rich featured image file name
Subscriber widgets
Subtitles
Cards & End Screens
If your goal is to use the power of YouTube and the SEO value you can gain from posting content there, these seven items should be taken into account.
We are only going to focus on #3 today and will cover the other six items in another post.
When done properly, the Video Description text box can give you a leg up to having your video rank in google.
Basically, you can’t just upload a video and think that it will be found easily, or at all, for that matter.
You may be asking yourself … why does it matter if a video is found on YouTube, that’s not my website?
Well, you are accurate! #smartcookie
HOWEVER, adding a backlink(s) to your site as the FIRST ITEM IN THE DESCRIPTION will boost your SEO value and make it super simple for someone who’s watching your video to visit your site.
If your video starts to trend on Google Searches, your website will also be thrown up in search results as a valid result.
YouTube Stats
Considered to be the #2 website in the world, outperformed by Google. Here are 2020 Stats You Should Know* -2 Billion Logged in Users MONTHLY (and still growing) -81% of 15-25 year-olds using the platform in the U.S. -500 hours of content (videos) uploaded every MINUTE -Visitors spend 11 minutes on average per day on the platform -70% of what people watch is determined by the algorithm.
It’s evident that YouTube has an incredible user base and content is being consumed at an unbelievable rate each minute of the day. This is a big jump in stats from 2018.
Now You Know, Now What?
Let’s focus, for this conversation, on #3, Optimizing Your YouTube Video Descriptions, for the sake of increasing your own brand SEO value.
Up to this point, you may or may not have even filled out a description of your video; many content creators who don’t know any better will just upload the video and leave the forget about the description altogether.
DO NOT DO THIS.
There are certain tidbits of information that Google and your viewers are looking for, so let’s make them both giddy, like school girls!
YouTube Video Descriptions
You would think that YouTube video descriptions are just for that, video descriptions.
Well, that’s only partially accurate.
To optimize and capitalize on the potential SEO value YouTube can give your brand, the video description text box is a much bigger opportunity to pounce on.
Yes, you do want to include your video description, but you want to wrap around it other information about your brand, your product, information about your team, ways to contact you, other products/services you may be providing…the possibilities are endless.
Think beyond just the description of the actual video.
This is a golden opportunity to embrace the “more is better” philosophy.
Having thoughtful text that supports your brand and gives users a better picture of who/what you are, what you stand for, and ways to connect, will help viewers and it will thrill the hell out of the Google spiders too! Yes, I said spiders. #itsawinwin #longerisbetter
YouTube has made this easy, so you don’t have to write long-form content on every upload, the YouTube Creator Studio default settings will be where you want to nestle in and create “templates” of sorts, that will inject every upload you do. Leaving just a paragraph or two, for you to write the actual description of the video itself when you post.
Using the YouTube Creator Studio Default Settings will not only make your life easier when uploading new videos, but it will also aid in a much higher SEO value WHEN DONE PROPERLY.
Ensure Your Default Channel Settings are All Pre-Programed: 1. Channel: Basic Info, Advanced Settings, Branding, Feature Eligibility 2. Upload Defaults: >Basic Info: This is where you can program your video description, in this suggested flow:
It’s critical to have a clickable link in the very first line of your description. Linking back to your website. To ensure the link is clickable in the description after publishing, you have to include the “http://” or “https://” in front of your domain. (www. will NOT work)
The next section should be left blank or create a prompt for your team to include a description of the actual video being uploaded. (you will see in the example <<<VIDEO DESCRIPTION HERE>>> is used as the prompt, to delete and manually add text to the defaulted description you programmed in the Basic Info Upload Default settings)
Following the description of the video is more of a brand review, with ways to get in touch, buy from you, hire you, promote whatever, etc.
Lastly, include any legal disclaimers if applicable.
John Addison, former Co-CEO of Primerica, emerged as a leader shortly after joining in the early 1980s. John helped navigate the company as they expanded all over North America, and in the years following its acquisition by Sandy Weill and what became Citigroup. He became president in 1995 and Co-CEO in 1999.
In late 2006, John, and other Primerica leaders began working on a plan to exit the business from Citigroup. It was a challenging journey that crossed paths with the height of the financial crises. However, on April 1, 2010, Primerica leaders rang the bell at the New York Stock Exchange, recognizing the first day of trading for the initial public offering of Primerica, Inc. Primerica’s IPO is recognized as one of the most successful of the decade, being 20+ times over-subscribed.
Guiding the sales force through these changes, while also working to keep morale high, developed John’s passion and talent for motivating others and allowed him to inspire and empower over a million people during his career. In addition to his stellar reputation as a businessman, John has made a name for himself as a top-rated speaker, renowned for using his down-home delivery and humor to provide insight and wisdom on leadership, personal development, and success.
John is a sought after keynote speaker; he travels several times a year to share his wisdom and knowledge. He was honored by the University of Georgia Alumni Association as one of the Bulldog 100, an elite group of graduates who’ve excelled in their careers.
Today, John is focusing on his passion for helping people become the best leaders they can be. He truly understands how to inspire and motivate, and wants to share his insight to help others achieve success through servant leadership.
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