How to Script YouTube Videos (for HIGH ENGAGEMENT)

When you get high engagement on YouTube, you get more retention, which means you’re going to get higher rankings and more views to suggested and through search.

How do you write a whole script that’s going to give you massive amounts of engagement? We’re going to talk about that today. I’m going to take you step-by-step through it.

Step #1

Step number one is the HOT intro –  Hook, Outcome, Testimonial. That’s what the HOT intro stands for.

Hook is obviously getting the viewers’ attention right off the bat to make them want to stay tuned in.

Outcome is telling them exactly what they’re going to get out of your video by the end of watching it, again, making them want to stay tuned in to the whole thing.

And testimonial is if you are an entrepreneur or you are some sort of expert of any kind, giving people a reason to believe you and trust you, i.e., I’ve worked with thousands of people in the fitness space or in the YouTube space, something like that, some sort of testimonial.

That’s hook, outcome, testimonial, the whole hot intro, but if you were just starting, and you don’t want to deal with the outcome and testimonial pieces, just make sure you don’t miss the hook because the hook is what’s going to get your viewers’ attention immediately and make them want to watch your entire video.

The hook is vital. Let’s say, I’m doing a vlog on traveling around Canada. I’m going to hook my viewers by doing something like this:

“Oh, my God. Did you just see that whale?”

Step #4

Step number four is middle engagement, so keep your questions simple because again, not everybody uses YouTube every single day.

You need to warm people up. You get them over that hump of actually leaving a comment on YouTube.

What I like to do and how I rack up thousands of comments on my videos, I ask something really simple.

For example, in this video I’m going to ask you:

“Is the scripting process making sense? If it is, write “Boss” in the comments below.”

I know a few of you are going to go do that (and thank you for doing it) and if you’ve written “Boss”, then it makes you more comfortable to write more comments throughout the entire video.

You’ve asked them to subscribe at the beginning, that’s one piece of engagement. Then, you’re asking them a question in the middle to keep them drawn into you and keep them engaged in your content. Plus, up your engagement by getting more comments on your videos, so if you’re craving comments, this is a simple thing to do in your scripts to make sure that people are actually going to comment on your content.

Step #5

Step five is your Outro engagement.

You want to make sure that before people leave their video, they are engaging with you. There’s a couple of things that you can do.

One, you want to ask them to like it if they liked it, dislike it if they didn’t (because a dislike is still a piece of engagement), and it gets people interacting with your content and probably coming back for more.

Ask them to subscribe once more if they enjoyed the content, and tell them there’s a new content coming up so they have something to look forward to.

Ask them to share it with someone that you know it would be beneficial to.

Another way to increase your engagement through your script is to ask a question, and then include that question in the cards in your video.

In this video we’re going to add a card that says:

“Are you going to use the scripting formula? Yes or no?”

Again, this isn’t a monologue. Boring YouTube videos are people talking at you. Great YouTube videos with super high engagement have scripts that engage you and make you feel like you’re having a conversation and a dialogue.

Step #6

Step number six – ask your viewers out.

Might sound a little forward, but it works 🙂

You want to ask your viewers to join you somewhere else. Because what happens is someone finds your video on YouTube? They think it’s really entertaining, they think it’s really great (obviously, because you’re great!), but then, they forget about you.

There’s too much content online, so what you need to do is make sure that you’re sending them somewhere where you can further build a relationship.

Of course, you’re going to chat back with them in the comments, but also send them to a Facebook group, to your email list, to your website, to your other social platforms, and build those using YouTube.

Please just don’t forget to send them somewhere because your viewers want to follow you and build a relationship with you. You need to take the first step, and ask them out.

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