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Any master storyteller will tell you that the most important thing you can do when you tell a story is to hook the audience in the very first line.

No matter the style, the opening must always spark your audience’s interest and grab their attention from the very beginning.

Even more so in this day and age where we’re competing with 17 other open-tabs on everyone's browsers.

After all, attention is the most sought after currency in the marketing world, and that’s something any content creator should pay attention to - pun probably intended.

## Video Killed the Radio Star

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There is a lot more video creators in the world right now than any generation before us, and that's a good thing because there’s also an immensely huge amount of attention in video-content as a consequence.

So for those of you who create videos and want to promote our favorite platform and grab some of that untapped attention, I have a little gift for you towards the end of the post, and I hope you’ll like it.

### Intros are Gold!

I was listening to [Noah Kagan](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF2v8v8te3_u4xhIQ8tGy1g)’s Podcast the other day and I stumbled upon an interview with an NPR producer about how to get hundreds of thousands of listeners to your podcast, and the opening line was literally this:

> [*“If you don’t hook people in like the first minute… You’re screwed!”*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhLwXRFDbis)

Because at the end of the day, any master storyteller will tell you that the most important thing you can do when you tell a story is to hook the audience in the first line.

With that in mind, here are a few intros for the video content creators among us who want to spread the word about steem…

Let me know what you think:

### Número Uno:

https://youtu.be/rGubgMaWMiM

### Numero Due:

https://youtu.be/ZbhXinmiSJI

### Numéro Trois:

https://youtu.be/pPIBpFgPh6g

### Numba Four:

https://youtu.be/DAOCRSQMk4g

### Which one do you like Best?

*From [The Alien](https://steemit.com/@the-alien) with love.*

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