Episode 178
I secretly tried the 8 post challenge while hosting a conference
December 4th, 2025
14 mins 17 secs
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There's always something more urgent than social media!
Well, in this week's "vlog" style episode (check out youtube to see it!), I'm here to prove that you can post every piece of content out of my "Social Media Pack" in under 16 minutes!
Oh- And did I mention that our church is hosting a conference while this is going on?
Can it be done? Let's dive in and see, together!
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π°οΈTIMECODES
00:00 What is the 8 post challenge?
01:48 Post #1 - The Coffee Challenge
03:49 Post #2 - The On the Way to Run Thru
04:50 Post #3 - The Bathroom Challenge
05:24 Post #4 - The Recruit on The Fly Challenge
06:27 Post #5 - The One Take, No Retakes Challenge
08:40 - Post #6 The Multiple Students Challenge
10:31 Post #7 The Before Getting out of my Car Challenge
11:50 Post #8 - The Secret Cohort Post Challenge
12:12 How I Did, overall
12:55 6 Minutes Per Week?
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TRANSCRIPT
00;00;00;01 - 00;00;18;24
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
People always say that social media takes too much time. So I kind of want to put that theory to the test. This week I'm testing my seasonal social media pack while here at work in live time. All eight posts one week. And oh, by the way, we're hosting a conference this week, so I'm as busy as I've ever been.
00;00;18;33 - 00;00;23;21
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
Stopwatch starts now. Let's do this thing.
00;00;23;26 - 00;00;56;17
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
Good morning. It is before 7 a.m.. The week of November 3rd. As I mentioned in the hook, I have a we are hosting as a church a massive conference called the Cross Creek Collective, where I'm actually slotted to be on stage multiple times. So what I wanted to try to do was prove to myself and you, and issue a little bit of a challenge that I could post all pieces of my social media pack in less than 16 minutes worth of collective time over the course of a week.
00;00;56;17 - 00;01;14;59
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
So I'm going to go two posts per day, and that will give me a glimpse into every single piece of content in my social media pack. The Winter Seasonal Social Media Pack is currently available. Link down below in Patreon if you want to check it out, but I'm going to be posting week of November 3rd from the fall seasonal social media pack.
00;01;14;59 - 00;01;32;22
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
There are two categories. There's the done for you category and those are so plug and play. I'm going to say those are only going to take me a minute to post each. And then there's the custom for you category. And I'm going to film a custom brand new piece of social media content across all three social channels. YouTube, TikTok and Instagram.
00;01;32;22 - 00;01;51;00
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
But three minutes for each of those 16 total minutes. And we're going to be tracking my progress all throughout the week. And every single one of these is going to also be paired with some sort of time challenge. So why don't we hop into Monday morning? I'm going to use one that requires a little bit more time of me this morning.
00;01;51;00 - 00;02;13;10
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
So we're going to go ahead and we're going to do the Bible Trivia one. Now full disclosure I have not taken a look at this Bible trivia since the day I wrote it. And this is the full social pack, which means at some point in the summer is when I made these trivia questions. So, I don't have them memorized.
00;02;13;10 - 00;02;32;06
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And so I want to simulate what it would be like if you also downloaded this pack and used it. So all right here that the water's done. So we're going to pour that in over there. And then I'm going to film on my camera right here. And I got the questions pulled up on my computer screen right in front of me.
00;02;32;06 - 00;02;37;05
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
So just a second.
00;02;37;10 - 00;03;10;18
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
One minute to shoot, one minute to edit, one minute to post to all three of the platforms that I use TikTok, Instagram, YouTube. So go. Use overlay. There we go. All right, so there's that. Now I'm going to caption it. Let's pick a style. Let's do this style. I'm going to add some quick music sound sound add sound.
00;03;10;23 - 00;03;45;47
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
How did you do. Select all copy post done. What we're going to do is we're going to allow this time and let's check on the status of our coffee. I still don't even have half a cup in here yet. So, I did beat the challenge. We got it before the coffee. I went 32 seconds long, but we're going to make up for that because we have eight posts, so we have to do all of this in 16 minutes.
00;03;45;52 - 00;03;48;52
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
Coffee time.
00;03;48;57 - 00;04;11;19
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
All right, so like I said, I'm heading across, conference. I have run through, at 1:00. It's like 1230. So I am heading across the creek and I'm just going to post this as I go. So copy paste, caption copy. And it's still uploading. Worst thing is I'm just out of range of Wi-Fi. Oh, there we go.
00;04;11;19 - 00;04;37;31
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
I got it posted on YouTube, on Instagram, and then like as you can see, literally the longest thing that this has taken me to do is switch between accounts like this. Downloaded. This is from the Dunphy. So this one's only supposed to take a minute. The minute is just taking as it's loading and I always gotta make sure that the song is appropriate to Holy forever post.
00;04;37;34 - 00;04;55;28
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
What is this done? And about a minute and 30 over time. So I don't know if maybe I'll get this done in 16 total minutes, especially with men on the street and transition videos. But then we're going to try. We're gonna try and make it some time tomorrow. So yesterday was full planning day today Tuesday is day one of the conference.
00;04;55;28 - 00;05;17;16
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
So we're gonna have other church leaders and planters here. I gotta shave some time. I'm going to make a cup of coffee. We're going to get our day started. But this challenge this time challenge is actually going to be the bathroom time challenge. So, I'm going to take this in with me. I'm going to post the time of how long it takes me, but for obvious reasons, the camera's going to stay right here.
00;05;17;21 - 00;05;23;12
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
A few moments later.
00;05;23;17 - 00;05;46;15
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
So I'm at the conference now. Backstage. You can see the right on here. My challenge now is I have not recruited anyone for this transition. Videos. Shoot, edit, post three minutes. I'm hoping to make up some time on it. It's, one of our students shows up for the conference. I can hopefully just recruit them in to do it, so we'll see.
00;05;46;20 - 00;05;50;55
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
I'll let you know.
00;05;51;00 - 00;06;07;39
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
So I like doing TikTok because it auto saves it. Got to make sure when we're putting it in here that we take the sound off. And that way we have sound in the full video for both. It doesn't like auto edit it a little effect so that there's like a little jump thing because that's what the video does.
00;06;07;39 - 00;06;38;16
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
So add some captions, let it auto transcribe it, upload boom. 228 we bought back 30s. That was huge. I'm hoping that we can get some quicker ones tomorrow as well. Tune in for Wednesday's post. Let's see. We yesterday are 228. Really helped us out. We're 72 seconds over right now. So this morning the challenge is to do a one take, no retakes.
00;06;38;16 - 00;06;57;06
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
So I have not looked at this yet. And I am going to be filming it right here, selfie style, just using my laptop as my screen. And then I'm going to pull my script up. And so if you download my social pack, I have this script, and you find one that works. So I'm going to do, when it gets cold.
00;06;57;06 - 00;07;17;51
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
This is from the fall pack. We got five of these in the winter pack as well that you can use one take no retakes. So minute to shoot, minute to edit, a minute to post. I'm hoping to gain some time in this three minute thing. It's 832. I like to get this done here. So that I can get back over to this morning's main session.
00;07;17;56 - 00;07;23;40
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
Fall means colder days.
00;07;23;45 - 00;07;47;13
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
All right, so my stopwatch is at 37 seconds, so I'm going to go to TikTok once again. TikTok auto saves. It means colder days. All right. I'm going to add this text on screen here. Pole I like pairing like a big font with like a handwritten like script D type font. Cat. And then the captions on TikTok are actually amazing because, you might have seen the ad.
00;07;47;18 - 00;08;10;33
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
They'll give you this style option here. And you can add some like, emojis and stuff like that, which are pretty good. And then I'm just going to add some sound instrumental and then I gotta turn this sucker down or it'll be way too loud. All right. So I am right now I'm at 252, so sadly I'm not going to get under three minutes.
00;08;10;37 - 00;08;37;47
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
But I'm just now finally at the, posting phase. So 345 we're behind and, it's it's not looking good, people. It's not looking good. It's looking like we're we're not going to hit our challenge. But nonetheless, I did the entire thing in three minutes and 45 seconds, an entire devotional from start to finish. It's 837. I got time to now hop over to the rest of the conference.
00;08;37;47 - 00;08;57;39
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
I might even go to the bathroom. First I was in the challenge was man on the street. I chose Wednesday night because we invited all of our students to join us at this conference, and so I figured I would be able to find students. And so, full disclosure, I forgot the connection to put these microphones on my camera phone.
00;08;57;44 - 00;09;17;53
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And so I used this camera, which I have been recording all the other videos all week, instead, which was no big deal. So now I just have a student, creating and caption is B-roll on my phone for this one. Found a couple students. I also forgot my SD card all the way across the creek on the other side.
00;09;17;53 - 00;09;38;15
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
So here's a video of me running back to the other side of the building to grab my SD card to capture it, because I was doing a little bit of editing first, I did accomplish and capture two students in this moment, and I did it quick, and, it was like 38 or something seconds between the two of them.
00;09;38;19 - 00;10;00;55
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And so I totally could have done that video, but I chose to add a couple other students into the video. And so that, of course, took a while. And then backstage mean the Wi-Fi was taking forever. And so I gave myself a break because it took five minutes and 34 second total from capture, edit and post, and the majority of that time was on post on the Wi-Fi going bad.
00;10;00;55 - 00;10;26;56
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
So I said, okay, you know what? I did it. I'm going to give myself doing it in four. But sadly, that moment was when I had passed the 16 minute mark, and probably worse than passing the 16 minute mark was the fact that somehow I had successfully uploaded this video to YouTube and TikTok and gotten a fair amount of views, but it posted to Instagram with no sound question mark.
00;10;26;56 - 00;10;49;41
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And one of my students roasted me for that. Thursday was the last day of the conference, and it only went until noon. I have been hosting also on Thursday afternoons, a youth ministry leader cohort in cooperation with my friend Dairy Prescot. When I originally planned the time, I planned it to hopefully avoid issue with the collective.
00;10;49;41 - 00;11;09;01
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
So the first challenge was the post before you get out of your car challenge, which was not a problem. We're in the done for you section, rounding out the last couple of posts here on our challenge. And even though we're past the 16 minute mark, I still want to see what our total amount will end up being when it's all said and done.
00;11;09;01 - 00;11;30;20
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And so I did post this before I got out of the car. A very simple Bible verse. No big deal. Super easy. However, run through started seven minutes ago so I'm already late. Well, it's not a big deal to post for. I get out of my car normally I was holding up run through because I was late, but I'm committed to this video and I'm committed to you guys.
00;11;30;20 - 00;11;47;26
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And then the conference happened and it ended and we said our goodbyes to all of our friends. And then I ran over back across the creek, and I had to jump onto my youth ministry leader cohort at 1230, at which point I did reveal to them that they were a part of a challenge. But only after I did it.
00;11;47;26 - 00;12;06;54
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
So I tried to secretly post the Spiritual practice video on while I was sitting on my cohort without anybody noticing. And I do think I was successful in that. I was able to get both of those posted, the morning one a minute. So I did complete that challenge in a minute, one of the only few I did in my time allotment.
00;12;06;54 - 00;12;38;51
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And then the cohort was a minute and 19. And so in total, we ended with 19 minutes and 16 seconds. And so if you look at the financial breakdown, where you get basically 40 posts for an entire three months, you're looking at less than $0.50 per post, not to mention included in here in bonus ideas are the 100 plus draft and seven questions content, which is even more ideas, so it's even a better deal than $0.46 per post.
00;12;38;51 - 00;13;05;32
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
I'm asking you not to do eight posts per week, but to do three posts per week. Sometimes you do two dozen for you one custom, other times you do two custom one done for you. So it's either 5 minutes or 7 minutes. Imagine it's six minutes per week. Have your entire social media strategy done for you. I mean, think about it like three months of youth ministry content for just $0.23 a minute.
00;13;05;32 - 00;13;26;07
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
Some weeks it takes me seven, other weeks it takes me five. But the point is, and especially at the end of this, as I was sitting in my youth ministry leader cohort, everyone said time management and scheduling was the issue with staying consistent on social. So my recommendation would be take my pack, let it be the the basics of what you do.
00;13;26;07 - 00;13;45;14
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And if you do get busy, if something else comes up, you have something to fall back on. And then when you do have the creative energy to create something more custom and more elaborate, scrap one of mine and put one of your own in there. But mine will at least keep you moving in the right direction. Hey everyone, I hope you found this episode helpful.
00;13;45;14 - 00;14;11;10
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
Don't forget the winter pack is now live! Head over to Patreon 1799 to grab it. Or better yet, become a member for just $4 per month. And the 1799 actually. Then converts down to $12. For the three months of being a Patreon member and having access to the winter seasonal social media pack, I just proved that it can be done in less than 20 minutes for all eight post types.
00;14;11;10 - 00;14;16;32
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And so I hope that you found this episode helpful. But until next time my friends. And as always, don't forget. Stay hybrid.