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In this video, I’m going to show you how to integrate Placid.app with Make.com to automate social media posting, creating a fully automated workflow that’s way more efficient than Canva! 🎯 Placid allows you to dynamically generate on-brand visuals, while Make.com seamlessly automates the entire process, from image creation to posting—completely hands-off. 💥
I’ll guide you through setting up your Placid templates, which are customizable and automatically pull in content from apps like Google Sheets or Airtable. Then, I’ll show you how to connect it all through Make.com to auto-generate and publish posts directly to platforms like Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook. 📲
By the end of this video, you’ll see why Placid + Make.com is a game-changer for automating your social media strategy, giving you back your time and saving you from repetitive tasks. 🚀
What You’ll Learn:
• How to integrate Placid.app with Make.com for complete automation.
• Setting up dynamic templates that auto-fill with your content.
• Automating the process of creating and posting visuals to your social media channels.
• Why this setup is far superior to semi-manual processes in Canva.
Ready to upgrade your social media game? Let’s dive in! 🎬
Links (I might get a commission if you sign up using these links):
Sign Up with placid.app using this link - https://fas.st/t/T64SbbTf
Sign Up with MAKE using this link - https://www.make.com/en/register?pc=jsautomates
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hey everyone my name is jannis and in
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today's video I want to share with you a
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cool app that allows you to completely
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automate uh the design creation or asset
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creation for your social media this is
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not another canva tutorial where I show
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you how you can upload a spreadsheet to
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canva and then download the designs I
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show you how you can fully automate by
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meaning automate to automatically create
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uh the designs on a preset template that
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you can adjust as per your needs you can
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have multiple templates if you want to
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uh this this app is called uh Placid uh
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I'm using it myself and I'm have
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recently built some automation projects
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for my customers using this software so
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I want to share with everyone uh what's
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cool about it they have a built-in
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integration with make.com so it's very
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easy to work within make.com to automate
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all your social media or any other um
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design uh Creations so let's head to the
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pled website uh this is the website um
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it allows you to automatically create uh
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templates such as
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these um for example you can um change
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text for every template you generate you
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can change images and so on it's very
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easy to use uh you can uh use uh
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pre-build templates you can create your
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own
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templates and this and everything can be
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done automatically so uh the pricing uh
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starts from $9 per month and you can
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generate 500 uh temp uh designs so
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basically you can reuse design the
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design to multiple channels to multiple
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social media accounts for example you
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you can create one design and share it
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to Instagram or Facebook and um this
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everything can be done
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automatically so let's create a simple
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design uh for this video I want to
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create some Steve Jobs
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quotes um and post them to Facebook um
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I've asked Chad GPT to give me 20 Steve
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Jobs quotes and I pasted them uh in a
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spreadsheet now we're going to go to
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plased app website and once you logged
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in uh or registered you can uh click
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switch to app and this is going to be
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your back end um here you have your
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project
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um as I said I use um this app for my
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own projects uh and
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um for the showc for this video I'm
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going to create a new project it's JS
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out
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automates and uh I'm going to use make
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as you can see they have any uh other um
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Integrations as well but we're going to
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use make we're going to create our
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project and um then we're going to
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create our template so you can select
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from uh pre-build template or you can um
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create your own template I'm going to
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use this one for just so I can show you
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um how to do it so basically all that
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you can see on the um screen is um
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variable data which means when you send
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data from make you can change the image
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you can change the text you can change
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even the color of the background or you
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can have an image over the background
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but we going to make it very simple just
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so so you understand how this all works
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so for the picture I'm going to use a
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stable picture which is going to be
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picture of Steve
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Jobs and here I have a picture of Steve
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Jobs I'm going to have it here uh this
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text this will be quote and it's going
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to be
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variable
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okay and here we're going to
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leave everything out I'm just going to
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write uh here
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St jobs okay so this is our template
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that we're going to use uh for our
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automation so we're going to save
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it very easy to do right um we're going
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to click X and this is our template
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yes so let's head to
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make.com and we're going to start with
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Google Sheets and we're going to watch
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new
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rows and I need to select spreadsheet
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which is called
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plid
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yes and Sheet name is sheet one and the
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limit we're going to set to
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one and we're going to run this one so
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we can get some data in it
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okay the next module that we're going to
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add is a PL U placin
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module so if you are I'm going to show
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you how you can uh create with image as
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well but uh let's start with uh just a
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simple text
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so it's easier for you to understand so
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we're going to click create image and
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we're going to add our new connection
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because we created um a new project for
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every project you need to create a new
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connection so we're going to click here
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on this um API tokens and we're going to
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copy our
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API uh and paste it here we're going to
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save and uh here you will see all your
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templates as you can see we have one
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template here quote and uh where is the
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template
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and here is the template quote if I add
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another template I will be able to
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choose between the templates so I'm
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going to choose quote and as you can see
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all the data is um variable here so we
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can change the background color so let's
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make one image with the default and then
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I going to show you how the color
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changes for the background you can
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change the image of Steve Jobs um just
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by giving a URL
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of the image but um I'm going to show
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you that as well uh the quote variable
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we're going to use from our Google
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sheet and we can even change the text
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color uh we can vary the text color
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let's say we put uh CH GPT module
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here
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um yes uh give
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me uh we can Ask Jud gbd to Generate
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random color every time uh this runs
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so we're going to say zero we're going
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to have a user meage message please
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generate the r
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random hex
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uh uh
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color with um
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hashtag uh example let's say
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say where is the color like uh let's
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choose let's choose something like pink
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uh but we're going to leave this to
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White by
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default uh
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with for
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[Music]
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example in the result
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give only a
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color
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code
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okay yes so now if we're going to run CH
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GPD will go give us a random um color
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and we're going to put the
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result uh we're going to run this once
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so the result is like this and we're
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going to use the result um just let's
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unlink
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link okay now we should be able to
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choose the result from CH GPT yes we
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choose the result and the URL this means
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uh URL is this Steve Jobs we're going to
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leave that um
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we can change the color as well to match
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the quote color so okay and let's test
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this out let's just run
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once as you can see it's creating now
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the
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image and
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um here is the
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result stay hungry stay foolish Steve
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Jobs and you can see the color changed
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and uh and the text changed so you can
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see this is the quote and now it's here
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so we're going to adjust a little
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bit uh this one to
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larger like
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this it's going to be
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50 and we're going to
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add quotes so it looks better
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and like this like this okay let's run
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again and this time the text should be
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different color
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and and it should be your work is going
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to fill a large part of your life so
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let's see how we do
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it
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okay and the color is the same
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I know it's changed a little bit but you
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can ask uh CH GPD to randomize it more I
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think um so yeah let's uh actually get
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another Steve Jobs image so we can
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change it
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um and we going to use
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um we're going to go to Google and
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search for Steve
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Jobs and we're going to use a different
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different image we're going to use this
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one this is AI generated I think
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so but we're going to use okay we're
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going to use which one we're going to
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use we're going to use this one the
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young one Steve Jobs so I'm going
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to we're going to
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copy we're going to copy the link and
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then we're going to head back to make
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integration uh we're going to add
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here a module to get the
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file HTTP
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module uh get a
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file paste the URL
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here and then we're going to have a
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place it uh module that we're going to
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upload media because to use the image on
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uh place it design you need before
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upload the image to place it
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so yeah and here we're going to change
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the image
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to
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to this
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one and we're going to also ducate this
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one and change the background
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color um for our template
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so
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yep let's see how this
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works I think it didn't get
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the
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okay okay we need to get the
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image open image and you we can't get
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this one this image sorry we're going to
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get the different one
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then
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let's which one I don't
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know let's use this one the a ai1 Open
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Image new tab and Co let's copy the
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link
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here paste it here
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okay and now let's run once
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and let's see what we
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got design is generated and let's copy
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it
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here and as you can see the image
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changed and the you can work with the
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prompting or you can just don't let's
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let's remake this without changing the
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background and text colors because they
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do
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not stand out but we can um we can do it
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like this we're going
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to unlink unlink this will be the first
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to generate background and
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then
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um this is the
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I I need the color that you generate to
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stand out
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on okay let's run again
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let's see what we
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got and as you can see
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um now the text stands out more on the
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background and the image is the one that
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we selected but you can U every time you
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generate this you can um change the
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image change uh the background and Etc
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or you can create just a different
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um template as all these
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um uh assets or all these uh inputs are
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variable that you can uh populate while
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the scenario is running so uh after this
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uh you just uh if you want to publish to
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a single um social media account you
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just add here for example let's have a
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face Facebook pages create a
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post and
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um um which
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one can put it here um we're going to
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leave the message blank okay I'm going
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to open now uh the
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Facebook I think it's this one yes so
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let's run this
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once and this should post the design to
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our Facebook page this is just a simple
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um explanation how this thing works so
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you don't have to do anything manually
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so I don't
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have why why why is
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[Applause]
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this
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okay this post is empty ah and we need a
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message so we're going to add
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um add our quote message we're going to
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use the quote from here and we going to
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think like
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this I'm going to add
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quotes Okay let's run this again
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oh it won't share the image actually so
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let's stop it because we need to
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add
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uh we need to we need to do choose a
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different we going
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to create a post with photo yeah sorry
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so this one we're going to add photo
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from from URL the URL will be plid URL
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and the message will be the same as here
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okay we're going to delete this one and
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we're going to paste here so okay and
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now let's run
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this now it should publish the image on
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our
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Facebook
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um timeline
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fine this very simple um explanation of
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how this works but you can um make it
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more complicated uh I've done it more
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complicated I can show you for example
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um
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um uh here as you can see
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I have uh 12 different templates and I
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have the images that I want to use for
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the template stored on a Google Drive
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and then
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um I upload all the images to plusd and
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then depending on which image I want for
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template for example here on the
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template I have as you can see four
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Images text um more text and stuff like
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that and
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um after this is we I send the data to
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Google Sheets and from Google Sheets I
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send the posts to my social media
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accounts so this is for example one
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other use how you can use it but this is
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all automatic you don't have
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to do anything manually
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so so here is the
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image and you can see
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that um everything has been posted to
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our
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account yeah let's run this one again so
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we get and um once you if you want to do
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this you if you want to put this on
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automatic make sure you have enough
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um uh information in your Google sheet
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and uh then you can click this button to
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on and let and set it for example uh to
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60 minutes which is 1 hour so and then
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every hour you will have a new post uh
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to your Facebook pages so let's run this
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once
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again should create a new image and send
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it to our Facebook Facebook page
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so uh it's creating the post now and uh
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I will just show you quickly um how
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to add more social media accounts just
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let's refresh this page and as you can
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see we have a new post uh again made
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fully automatically and now uh because I
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switch this on every hour I will have a
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new post on my Facebook page so that's
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that so if you want to add more uh
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social media accounts just click on flow
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control then click router uh connect the
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router somewhere here it's going to
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create another router let's delete this
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one and then just add more roots for
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other social media accounts for example
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Instagram for business you can create uh
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use uh create a photo post
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um and um again here you select your
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account create the connection and uh for
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the photo URL you use your pled uh
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generation URL which is this one and for
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caption you can use um CH GPT to create
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the caption or you can use your own
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captions the same applies to other
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social media accounts such as Pinterest
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uh you can create a pin connect it to
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the rotor and again fill all the details
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uh Source type is image URL image UR
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again you get from the placd so yeah
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that's how this one works I hope this is
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somewhat useful for you to create a
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complimentary um post to your ongoing
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social media activities uh if you find
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this video helpful and uh you learn
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something from it just leave a like if
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you have any questions about placd about
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automations uh leave a comment I will
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get back to you
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and uh yeah I hope this video was
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helpful to you I hope you subscribe to
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the channel and I will see you in the
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next video thank you for watching
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goodbye
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