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{ts:0} Okay, let's go live. It's James speaking, trainingsites.io. NotebookLM
{ts:4} from Google just came out with a really cool new feature. It allows you to ask for research or deep research. And this
{ts:12} is especially important because in the past, anytime you were using Notebook from Google, you basically had
{ts:19} to do the research. So you had to add your documents, you had to add your PDFs, you had to add the YouTube videos.
{ts:26} You basically gave it the content and then that was in your notebook and then you could make prompts or ask Gemini
{ts:33} about what was in the research that you added. The cool thing is now what they've done in
{ts:39} the latest version is it'll do the research for you. So the question becomes, well, what do I get it to
{ts:45} research? What kind of stuff do I give it to research? Where should it research? And in fact, that's a special
{ts:51} hack that I want to show you today because the Trainingsites topical authority map prompts, the couple
{ts:58} prompts that we teach people when they're starting building their own education business, the content that you
{ts:64} get from that topical authority map works perfectly with Notebook. And it allows you to streamline that process of
{ts:70} creating your course content, the syllabus, even the curriculum of all of the things that you teach. It's just a
{ts:76} drop-dead simple way to put it all together. So what I want to do today is I want to show you seven special prompts
{ts:82} at the end that allow you to do that within Notebook. And I also want to show you the simple hack that takes your
{ts:88} topical authority map, which will actually create one step of it, plug it into Notebook, and get all of this
{ts:95} research done for you. So this is how it works. And in fact, this is why I came up with it, because we'll open
{ts:102} this one up here. One of the things I have is in the trainingsites.io campus. One of the first, actually the
{ts:108} first course that I ask you to take or the first program is a 10-step campus map. And step number two is all about
{ts:116} making sure that you understand what your topic is and all of the relevant subtopics and pillars of your topic. And
{ts:123} the reason you want to do this is because you want to have a really clear picture of what your campus or your
{ts:130} education business is about. I'm not talking about a niche course. I'm talking about the big picture. You have
{ts:136} a learning community. What is that learning community about? One course or is it about a topic? So the question is,
{ts:143} where does that topic come from? How do I create it? What are the different pieces of it? And in fact, that's one of
{ts:148} the questions that one of the members had when they were going over this course, and they have a real love for
{ts:155} NotebookLM, which I'll explain why it's a good idea in a minute. But they were trying to figure out, well, where does
{ts:161} this topical authority map fit into my notebook where I'm organizing all of my content in order to do the research and
{ts:169} do the stuff for creating the courses? And they do ADHD, which is obviously a technical topic that I have no idea
{ts:177} what it's about, how it works, but I'm going to use it as an example to show you how powerful the topical authority
{ts:183} map is in fine-tuning broad topics and making sure that you can answer questions that are important to your
{ts:191} particular market or the people you're trying to help. And then secondly, so we can actually go through and show you how
{ts:197} creating the topical authority map with only two or three prompts really gets you clear on what your campus and your
{ts:204} education business is about. And again, all of the links that I'm going to show you are available. They're
{ts:210} free as part of the trainingsites.io community, which I'd love you to join. All you have to do is go to the
{ts:217} URL that's below there, like and subscribe to the channel. Go to the URL, you can be part of the community. It's
{ts:223} free, as well as all of this content that I talk about on YouTube. So here's kind of the gist here. I'm in the
{ts:230} notes here and they were talking about creating the topical authority map. And what I did is I just went and
{ts:236} said, “Okay, well, we better go and click and take a look at the prompts for creating the map.” And I've got this a
{ts:243} little bit bigger hopefully so you can see it. And actually, I'll move myself to the other side here. This is the way
{ts:250} that this works. Basically, what you're going to do is this is to understand and identify your marketing message,
{ts:257} content, and course ideas. This is not a niche. I don't want you to pick a niche. I want you to pick a topic that you want
{ts:266} to become an authority in, but you're an expert in one particular area, category, pillar, or subtopic. So we're going
{ts:276} to define the core topic. That's step number one. We're going to generate 10 variations per subtopic, and then I'm
{ts:283} going to show you how to use one of those subtopics and get NotebookLM to do all of the research for it and
{ts:289} actually build out your course curriculums, your syllabus for courses, anything that you want to do,
{ts:296} because you're using Gemini 3, but based on all of the research that it's done about the specific parts that you've
{ts:304} come up with in the topical authority map. So I'm just going to do these first steps. And the reason that this
{ts:310} came about, of course, was in that step two of the campus marketing map. It's all about that 1–5–25 or 1–10–25.
{ts:322} I've got the example here of 30. We're just going to take this prompt here and I'm going to put it into Google Gemini.
{ts:331} Got a brand new thing here. This is Google Gemini. And right now I'm just going to use the fast model. I'm not
{ts:337} going to use the pro one. And I'm just in my, again this is cutting and pasting word for word the prompt. I'll
{ts:343} go over it so you know what it is. It says: I want to create a topical authority map. My
{ts:349} core topic is ADHD. Please give me 30 semantically relevant but unique subtopics or content pillars
{ts:357} under this topic. This should be useful for course lessons, community discussion areas, and workshop content. Now, the
{ts:364} thing is, the topical authority map comes from the search engine optimization industry and they were
{ts:370} doing this to try and figure out what are all of the related keyword searches or phrases or things that people are
{ts:376} looking for based on a keyword or a keyword phrase. They want to have a really big picture of all of the
{ts:383} different areas so they can target it with their content to rank highly. I'm looking at this and saying, well, what are
{ts:389} the different topics that someone is looking at, or subtopics they’re looking at, in a big
{ts:395} topic so I can create courses, lessons, discussion items around it? I asked for 30. You can have as many as
{ts:401} you want or as few as you want. I'm just doing 30 for this example. I'm just going to say, keep your
{ts:409} responses to a grade 8 level. And I'm just adding that because ADHD can be obviously a pretty technical
{ts:419} term. I'm not an expert in it. I want to be able to understand it. And I'm just going to go and click submit.
{ts:424} And what's going to happen now is that Gemini 3 is going to go through these things and it's going to
{ts:430} pick out 30 subtopics and it should put it into pillars. And there it did: Understanding ADHD, the basics; living
{ts:439} with ADHD, daily challenges; coping skills; community and relationships; diagnosis
{ts:447} and treatment. So it came up with 30 subtopics and it came up with five or six different pillars that are there, or
{ts:455} five pillars. So again, this is the big picture. If you're an expert on it, maybe you're only one pillar that's
{ts:462} here. For example, community and relationships. Maybe it's about diagnosis and treatment. Maybe it's
{ts:467} about all of them. One of the things that—where's one here? Here's one about community and
{ts:474} relationships. Maybe that's the area that you want to focus on. I'm doing this one here. We'll do family support,
{ts:479} which is a subtopic. And I'm sure for family support, there's a whole bunch of different areas, right? Well, why don't
{ts:485} we go to that second prompt, which said: For the top subtopic, give me 10 useful variations or angles I could use
{ts:497} to create lesson content, discussion prompts, or workshop sessions. They should each require a unique facet,
{ts:504} challenge, stage, or use case within the subtopic. So I'm going to copy this one.
{ts:511} We'll put it in again, and I'm going to put it in here. And I'm just going to say
{ts:521} “family support for members with ADHD.”
{ts:532} And I'm going to ask for these variations. So basically what I'm asking it to do now is: Look, family support's a
{ts:537} big thing. I want to maybe create a course. I want to research. I want to focus on that part of ADHD. So what are
{ts:545} the different angles that come up? So we've got focus on challenging forgetfulness versus meltdown symptoms of ADHD.
{ts:552} They've come up with these variations of it: angle setting up a home environment, support for the non-ADHD
{ts:560} sibling, how to use language, crisis management and meltdowns, all of these different ones. So this is
{ts:569} just a really good example. We've got 10 really solid things that we could create a course or a lesson or a work plan out
{ts:576} of. What do we do with this now? Well, let's go to NotebookLM and get it to do the research because NotebookLM is a
{ts:584} wonderful place for organizing our thoughts, the research, and being able to only use AI to reference what is in
{ts:593} our research notebook. So let's do this one here. We're going to do—here's an interesting one. We're
{ts:601} going to do “consistent disciplines and rewards.” There we go.
{ts:610} That one sounds interesting. Again, I'm not an expert on this at all. So let's just go to NotebookLM. And in
{ts:617} my case, I'm going to do a new notebook. And when I do a new notebook, I'm creating one for ADHD. This example comes up at
{ts:624} the start. And normally, this is what used to happen: you used to have your documents and put them up. You used to
{ts:629} have links to YouTube videos that you found and put them up. You copied and pasted and put them up. You can still do
{ts:636} that if you've done a whole bunch of research, but in my case, I haven't. And I found some areas of my topical
{ts:642} authority map that I want to cover that I haven't done research on. So I'm going to click Discover Sources. And
{ts:648} you'll notice now on the left-hand side, NotebookLM has the ability to do deep research. And there's two kinds of deep
{ts:656} research it can do. And this is really important because the default one is Web. But you'll notice there's one
{ts:662} that's Drive. I don't know about you, but me now, I have thousands of documents in Google Drive. It would be
{ts:668} nice to not have to remember or properly name and organize that content, but just be able to research the topic I'm going
{ts:676} to put in for the search, what I want to search on in Drive. But in my case, I'm going to go and look for new content.
{ts:683} And I can select fast research or deep research, where it actually gives me an in-depth report. I don't want the
{ts:689} report. I just want some quick results. In this case, I'm going to get 10 external
{ts:695} resources that I can include as reference documents when I'm building out my course lessons and all of the
{ts:703} other material that I need in this notebook for something that I'm going to present for educational content. So for
{ts:709} me, I'm going to search the web for new sources and I'm going to put in “developing clear, immediate, and
{ts:718} consistent consequences or rewards which are effective for children with ADHD.”
{ts:738} We'll leave it there, and I don't want to put this piece in again. This is the part I was talking about, keep it at a
{ts:742} grade 8 level. You can always massage these, but the fact is that we've picked out one particular topic,
{ts:749} which is consistent consequences or rewards. So I'm just going to get rid of that last part, fast research, and
{ts:755} we're going to pick it up. Now, here's the cool part. I'm not doing this research. I'm only using one of the 30
{ts:764} that I came up with, and I asked for 10. So that's 300 different options that are available. I used one and it came up
{ts:771} with—in this case, we've got, I'll just minimize this so it's a little bit
{ts:777} bigger—we've now got 10 reference documents from third parties that we can
{ts:784} actually go and take a look at and reference them in the chat that we're having. So here's one here, “Behavior:
{ts:792} Motivate Kids.” If I want to go and look at it, all I have to do is click the button. It opens up in another tab. And
{ts:797} if I don't like it, I just—this one here, I just remove it. This one here,
{ts:806} here's one I don't like. I'm just going to remove that one. And when I'm ready, I can import them. And it's going
{ts:812} to bring eight of these reference documents into the sources that I'm going to select from. Now, here's the
{ts:818} best part. Depending on whether you have a free Google account or a paid Google account, I believe you can put up
{ts:825} to 50 sources in the free account and 300, I think, in the paid accounts. But I can certainly go and do that exact
{ts:834} same thing again, right? I'm not limited to these 10. So I can go back to my topical authority map that I was just
{ts:841} building out and I can do one on “homework and school.” We'll do that one here. I'm going to
{ts:852} copy that one because it's somewhat related. I'm going to go put that one in. And we're just going to do another
{ts:857} one for creating rewards and consequences
{ts:873} to help children in the classroom. So there's another one. We're going to pull it up, have it do the research. So
{ts:885} you get the idea here. We can do five different ones if we wanted here. And at the end of the day, we have an absolute
{ts:891} gold mine of research to go over that isn't even ours. We can combine ours at any time. I can just go click Add
{ts:897} Sources and have it go through. Here's seven more. We've got PDFs, web pages, all sorts of stuff that's there. I'm
{ts:904} going to go and select all the sources and import it. So now I've got 18 sources. I can go add my own, but I've got
{ts:910} a great background that's available to me. So what do I want to do with this? Well, Notebook, if you remember
{ts:916} correctly—and again, I've got these additional videos within the campus on how it all works—but big picture here
{ts:922} is that I've got all this research material. What do I put in now? Because I want to create a course. I want to
{ts:928} create a lesson plan, that kind of thing. Well, here's some prompts you can take directly. I did these ones up so
{ts:934} that you have them. And again, these ones will be there. Let me just do this one here, which is a simple one.
{ts:941} So, sequencing question, a question you can use to sequence some content. I'm just going to go and in the chat—
{ts:947} notice actually in the bottom here, maybe I can make this a little bit bigger—“What are the most effective
{ts:951} evidence-based strategies for parenting?” It comes up with some suggestions, but my question is, or what I want it now to
{ts:959} do is I'm asking Gemini 3 to—I'm giving it a prompt, but it's based on the research that was done. It's not going
{ts:966} out to the web for other research. It's only using the research content that I provided for it based on the topical
{ts:974} authority map. So: “Based on [these sources], create a logical six-week flow. The order should progress from foundational beginner
{ts:982} concepts to more advanced strategies. Explain why you think this is [the right order] for the ADHD area.” So pull it up now.
{ts:991} This is Gemini 3. It's working hard in the background and it's actually going to come up with exactly what you need to
{ts:998} start building out your content. And you have it in a notebook. Now, I asked for a six-week curriculum. It could be a
{ts:1007} lesson. It could be a seven-part series. Doesn't really matter what you asked for. The thing that's important here is
{ts:1013} that you have a specific structure of the course based on content that you had Google Notebook search for. And it's all
{ts:1023} organized in Notebook as individual courses. And remember, this part of Notebook that we're looking at right
{ts:1029} now, this is Gemini 3. It's not cutting and pasting. It's not searching a whole bunch of other places and trying to
{ts:1036} bring it in and organize it. This is just a real simple way to have everything that you need about a
{ts:1043} particular course. So here's the six-week program: foundations, beginner, advanced focus,
{ts:1051} where they fit in. All you have to do is change the prompt to specify it to yourself, but you've now got everything
{ts:1057} put together, and it is based on a topical authority map. You're not all over the place. You have a set plan and
{ts:1064} are looking at that topical authority map as a big flywheel on what it is that you're actually providing in terms of a
{ts:1073} transformation for people. This is an exciting time using all of these AI tools. This is just a simple hack of how
{ts:1079} to use a topical authority map and NotebookLM using the brand new deep research and research tools. My name is
{ts:1087} James, this is trainingsites.io. Hope you enjoyed this. Please make sure to like and subscribe to the channel and go to
{ts:1091} trainingsites.io and join. There is more and better stuff coming. It's happening all the time and I'm really
{ts:1100} excited to share it with you. So, hope you all enjoyed it. Take care and expect the best.youtube
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