See how I rapidly create the thumbnail for this class and what I do to fast create all of my new thumbnails while displaying a consistently branded picture and clearly explaining the topic of the video class!

Your Instructor(s) (s)

EDUfyre’s Jerry Banfield

I attempted to start working online in 2005 while attending the University of South Carolina. I joined an MLM program as well as a survey website. After receiving refunds from both, I concluded that working online was impossible because everything was a scam. The fact was that I was frightened of failing again.

In an attempt to avoid dealing with any of my other problems, I moved in with my wife in 2011 and launched an online business focusing on video game addiction. I switched my business to selling shirts after realizing there was no money in video game addiction. A year after beginning my firm, I pulled out of my criminology PHD program at the University of South Florida to focus on my business full-time, which had evolved into helping customers with Facebook and Google advertisements after failing to do so successfully for myself.

In 2013, I began freely sharing everything I knew on YouTube in the hopes of gaining more clients. I was nearly bankrupt by April 2014, having failed at 15+ different business models. I was also nearly dead from attempting to drink the pain away, and thankfully, the fear of death motivated me to seek treatment. Being in recovery encouraged me to focus on being of genuine service to others rather than on what I would get from it. I began creating courses for Udemy, which quickly developed into my first genuine company. I collaborated with as many talented instructors as I could and learned from top instructors how to increase sales of my courses.

In 2015, I attempted to make some inspiring films expressing what I had learnt in recovery and had a fantastic reaction on YouTube. I started making inspirational videos while playing video games to make the background of my videos more interesting. To make the website more useful, I paid a freelancer to translate the videos into blog pieces, including this about page.

Curriculum of the Course

The First Section

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register for the skillshare thumbnail course (1:08)

Start

Choosing a backdrop image (4:27)

Preview

Using Camtasia to preserve a video frame (6:39)

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Canva for background mixing – a new image and word (7:17)

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thumbnails completed by the class (1:48)