CTA and funnel design
One destination, one short form, and an invitation placed where the video still holds people, then confirmed by what the enquiries do.
The short version
Is this for you? For the video that never invites anybody, and the one that places the ask exactly where the attention had already gone. Not yet if there is nothing on the other side of the click; with no offer, page or next step to point at, the lever is small, and we will say so.
What leaves your plate. The placement read off the retention curve rather than dropped at the end, the lesson carried on past the ask so it is not the exit, one destination per video, and a form that asks only what a reply needs.
What starts working. One clean route from a free lesson to a form somebody actually answers, and a monthly number that says plainly whether it worked.
The smallest way in. A free audit: three fields, and a written reading back, usually within about three working days. It commits you to nothing.
What to read next. The five levels to see where this fits, or the casework to see it done.
One destination, placed where the attention actually is
Placement starts from the retention curve, then the enquiries confirm it
The graph shows where a video still holds people and where it gets rewatched, which is where a placement starts rather than where it ends. Retention tells you who is still watching, not who is about to act, so the enquiries are what say whether the placement was right. Closing a long lesson with the ask reaches the people who were already convinced and misses everybody who left at the good bit. Each video gets its own placement, and it moves when the curve and the enquiries do.
The lesson carries on after the ask
One line from a partner's SOP: after the call to action, return to the instrument angle and keep teaching. An invitation that lands exactly where the video stops teaches an audience that the ask is the exit. Carrying on costs a few seconds of runtime and keeps intact the reason they came in the first place, which is worth considerably more than the seconds.
One destination per video
A description with five links is a menu, and a menu at the moment of decision is a delay. Each video points at one place, the page which continues the thing the video was about, while the other links carry on existing where people go looking for them. That is our strong default because it usually wins, not a rule that cannot bend: where a video's own enquiries show two genuine intents pulling toward two pages, the enquiries decide.
The form asks only what a reply needs
Every field is a small charge levied on somebody who has not yet decided they like you. Company size, budget bracket and a telephone number are questions for a conversation, not for a first hello. What survives is whatever is genuinely required to write a useful answer, which is usually fewer fields than the first draft asked for, and always fewer than a CRM would like.
The route from the video to the enquiry
The route, end to end
A free lesson that holds nothing back, an on-screen invitation at the right moment, a page that continues the same sentence, a short form, and a person who answers it. Five steps. A route is only as strong as the one nobody looked at, and it is usually the page in the middle.
Where the same destination repeats
The title, the description, the pinned comment and the timestamps are part of the route itself. They carry the same single destination in the same words, so a viewer who scrolls instead of clicking arrives at the same door and not at a slightly different one. Read more: titles, descriptions and metadata →
What gets checked afterwards
How many enquiries the invitation took, from which video, at which placement, and what the form said when it landed. That number goes into the monthly report beside the video it came from, which is how the next placement gets decided and never guessed.
The curve records where the attention still was, which beats the end of the video where the fewest people remain.
Whether that was the right moment to ask is a thing the enquiries tell you, not the graph on its own.
What changes for you
One route from a free lesson to a form somebody answers, an invitation placed by evidence, and a monthly number that says plainly whether it worked.
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Before strategy is discussed, we read the channel: what it publishes, what it promises and where the two part ways. The audit comes back in writing, so the first call starts from evidence rather than introductions.
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Three fields, and a written reading back: a fit snapshot, two or three prioritised opportunities, and a recommended next step.
A person reads the channel and writes the audit by hand: a considered read typically takes three working days. That is the usual shape, not a promised turnaround. We use these details only to reply to you: no lists, no lurking.
What you will get
A fit snapshot: where your channel stands, and whether we are a match.
Two to three opportunities: specific, prioritised, yours to keep.
A recommended next step, even if that step is not us.
The audit is free and commits you to nothing: nobody follows up with a call you did not ask for.
The casework shows all of this done.
The case studies are the same work with the numbers, the sources and the dates attached.
See the casework →