A college soccer recruit's 10-minute highlight video gets no views because it's too long. Coach Darko says recruiters lose interest fast and recommends cutting it down to two and a half minutes instead. He edits videos for students in his full recruitment program, not separately.
Hey coach, I don't understand. Nobody's watching my highlight video. It's so good. Just like, it's amazing. I'm such a good player. How come nobody's watching my highlight video? In order to play college soccer. Let me guess, uh, how long is your video? Oh, it's like, uh, 10 minutes long because I'm so good. Like, there's just so many good moments. I couldn't pick out like which clips to take out. This is just so good. Okay, let me ask you something. Do you like, um, reading books like from COVID to cover? Um, yeah, like if it's a really good book, I would read like the whole thing from COVID to cover. What if the beginning of the book is like pretty boring? Would you want to watch like or read the whole book? Heck no, the beginning of the book sucks, I am out of there. I don't want to read the rest of the book. Well, if your highlight video is 10 minutes long long and the very beginning of the video isn't good, then there's really no chance they're going to watch the whole video. On top of the fact that a 10-minute video is like looking at a book, like an encyclopedia. It's like, oh my gosh, I'm gonna have to read a million books to get to the end of this encyclopedia. A 10-minute video is way too long, so you need to shorten the video to 1 to 3 minutes. At 2 minutes 30 is kind of the money one for a highlight video specific. Oh my gosh, Coach, that's a lot of work. Like, I have school, I'm like busy. Do you know anybody that could like basically do that for me? Yes, I do. I'm the Coach Darko guy. I edit every single video for every single one of my students, the entire thing, no matter how many videos I mean, I edit it all. Now if you say to me, hey, I just want you for my editing services, we don't do that because because it leads to a lot more questions because our students get questions answered and they get recruited once we fix their video. So you have to work with us in its entirety in order for me to help you with video. Do all well. Promise to call and schedule a call with you and your parents. Bye.
