All right, let's see here, admit all.
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I got a couple ideas for us today.
Of course, we'll do some Q&A around really any way we can serve you in this process,
add, you know, our wisdom to what you're doing, putting your hand to, but a couple
quick announcements right at the beginning.
We have a event coming up with Stephen from, other Stephen from Truly Free Market, more
on the affiliate marketing side of things.
I want to see if I can find here really quick the link for you guys, because this could
be an easy affiliate opportunity for you, potentially.
Here it is.
So Truly Free Affiliate Webinar.
Yeah, so this one is like a registration one.
Okay, so what I would do, if you've signed up for Truly Free, they have this, you know,
affiliate program, right?
We've kind of talked to you guys about that.
If you're doing the affiliate pathway, or if that would resonate with your audience
potentially on Instagram, if you wanted to invite people to this webinar, you could totally
do that and then use your own link, basically, if it's like a friend, it's probably won't
work if you're just sending to a bunch of random people, but if it's like a friend or
something like that, and they're looking for ways to earn income in this next season,
affiliate marketing is one of those ways to do that, and Truly Free just has a great program
for it.
So let me let some people in from the waiting room I see in there.
So if you wanted to share this link, it's something that we're doing mostly just in
Rainmakers, but I'm giving it to you guys.
I'll put it in the chat.
It's rainmakerlinks.com slash trulyfreeaffiliates, yeah, rainmakerlinks.com slash trulyfreeaffiliates.
And you could invite friends, family, who are into the affiliate marketing, or be interested
in affiliate marketing, and in that training, we'll be going over what it is, showing people
how to do it, and getting people signed up.
So at that point, if you wanted to make money off this thing, you would want to share with
your friends your link, your truly free affiliate link, instead of having them use ours, that's
totally fine.
Again, typically, we don't do that type of thing in Rainmakers, but this is a small group.
So I was like, hey, if we can do some of the work for you guys.
Yeah, it looks like it's at Wednesday.
Yep, 9am, 9am on Wednesday.
So for anyone watching this or watching the replay, I know we got a good replay crew at
this point.
If your niche is in the make money niche at all, or the wealth niche, or that could resonate
with your audience.
Like, hey, there's a new platform coming out, and you can make $50 per person you refer
to this platform.
You could kind of promote it that way, send them to our link, we'll do the training, but
then you'd follow up with your unique, truly free affiliate link.
And if they join truly free, they become an affiliate, you're going to make a commission
on that sale, basically.
So also, of course, works, you know, if you have a physical product out on truly free,
you can also do it that way too, like, here's my product on truly free.
When you send that affiliate link, how it works, it's kind of like Rainmakers where
even if someone just like checks out truly free, right, like, go to the website, check
it out through your link, they're now like cookied, which means, you know, their system
sees that person as being referred by you.
So even if they don't buy right then, but they come back later, they get an ad, they
come back later and buy something on truly free, you're going to get a commission on
that sale, basically, anytime from the time they click to like six months after that,
there's a big window kind of opportunity there.
So anyways, just want to bring that to you guys.
That's next Wednesday at nine.
I put the link in the chat, RainmakerLinks.com slash truly free affiliates.
One other announcement, let's see if I can show you guys this little secret.
I mentioned this, but the app is going to shift a little bit.
So we're in the Rainmaker family app.
OK, then we have our web app where we host our course and curriculum.
And eventually these things will be together.
But right now, two separate things.
But let me log in.
I'll show you guys what the course is about to look like.
It looks a lot cleaner.
and just a little more organized.
But if you're kind of like, where'd stuff go?
This is what it's about to look like.
So mine has a lot of stuff in here
because I'm in like the admin mode.
But basically when you click on courses,
no longer will it take you to a big old list in the sidebar.
They'll take you to basically categories like this, okay?
We're cleaning this up a little bit.
This is going in there.
So it's not gonna look exactly like that.
But if you're looking for, you know,
media channel mastery, it's gonna be in here, okay?
So it'll be in here like this,
media channel mastery.
And then when you click it,
then it comes into the course like this,
and you can kind of view the videos like this.
So if you've been knocking out these videos
or marking them as complete, that should transfer over.
But I just want to let you guys know
that is changing like where you'll access it, okay?
And then, yeah, one last thing I wanted to hit here.
I was on a training this week.
It was like a mastermind that we're a part of,
and everyone is kind of sharing marketing
kind of insights like working right now
when it comes to marketing.
And I wanted to start by just sharing a little bit of that.
I think that'd be valuable just for moving forward.
Again, nothing major changing, you know, that type of thing.
But it's just stuff to be aware of
when you're, you know, marketing something, right?
And that's what this call is really about is,
you know, the income side of the business.
And so I'm gonna pull my notes here.
I'm not gonna go through everything,
but there was a couple that said to me, I was like,
hey, that could definitely be something that,
you know, you could try and just kind of have
in the back of your head as you're marketing your things,
doing the call to actions and all that stuff.
So let me just pull up the note here,
and then should be good.
Let's see, there it is.
Okay, so we, in this mastermind,
it was kind of a lot of people who are doing marketing,
running ads, doing call to actions,
and everyone's kind of sharing their tips.
So this is kind of like a, this is a,
I'm reading off my notes from a bunch of different people,
but the first person who shared,
her name's Adrienne Richardson,
and she has like a Facebook agency.
So she runs a lot of ads for a lot of people.
She was talking about how, you know,
just AI is really replacing kind of hashtags
and when you run ads, we call it targeting.
So copy, which is the word you put on things,
matters more than ever, really.
Like the AI, the algorithms,
which are now being driven by AI,
they're looking for what is this post about?
You know, and Instagram can kind of tell
what a post is about.
So your words that you're putting in the thumbnail,
the words you're putting in the caption does matter
because it's going to, that's really going to be the thing
that gets it in front of the right person.
That's how they figure out, oh,
like this type of person might be interested
in this type of content.
So one thing that she kind of learned the hard way
is not to list the people it's not for, right?
So maybe you have a, yeah, I'm thinking of like Cappy, right?
So Cappy sells, it's like bread-making guy,
but she's like the non-starter version of bread, right?
It's not like sourdough, it's like,
but if she's using a bunch of like sourdough language
in her copy, the AI is not that smart yet.
So it might show it to the wrong person, right?
People that are into the sourdough stuff
and then it might be hurting her conversion.
So Adrienne was kind of sharing this,
she learned the hard way
because she listed a bunch of people it wasn't for,
like, hey, this is not for you,
if blank, blank, blank, blank, blank.
And then it started to show to those people.
And it was like, oh, it wasn't working because of that.
So it's not that smart yet,
but it's definitely getting there
where it's looking at the words
and that's how it's finding people to show to.
The only other one I wanted to kind of mention in here
is, and we've kind of actually, there's probably two more.
We've talked about this one,
but like we, right now it's like political season.
It's like, you know, uncertainty,
I would say is like in the air, right?
People like in this type of season,
people are a little bit more hesitant
to go buy something, right?
So if you're doing a call to action
or something that's cost money,
there's just less trust right now.
And there's less people spending money
on things they don't absolutely need.
So this is where you want to make the thing
as valuable as possible and test those lower price points.
But also if you can add some sort of risk reversal to it,
that's really helpful.
So if you're selling something, even if it's $10,
like having some sort of guarantee on it,
having some sort of like, hey, if you don't love it,
we'll give your money back type of thing,
it's going to help those sales start to come through.
And then when you have some sales start to come through,
getting some, what we call social proof,
like reaching out to those people and asking them,
how was it?
Did you like it?
And getting some testimonials or screenshots
that people be like, oh my gosh, this is amazing.
That can be really-
helpful to overcome the trust thing that people have like they're less trust trusting right now
and they're a little more hesitant so having social proof and having some sort of risk reversal
on the offers you're making is going to be really helpful. Okay and then the last one which I feel
like we definitely are not doing as much probably as a group but we do this all the time on the
Rainmaker accounts is having conversations in the messenger like in the DMs on Instagram.
We do a lot of posting do a lot trying to get people engaged but there was a guy who shared
in this mastermind and he was saying the amount of money they traded literally just from reaching
out to new people that followed so this works really well when you have a smaller account
you're not growing you know thousands of followers a day you can't message thousands of people but if
you got five followers today just reaching out to them it can be really powerful right it's not
always going to land in their inbox sometimes it goes to their other folder right but people do
check that and if you just reach out again it's something you could do fairly quickly you could
probably copy and paste the same message if you're going to do that though definitely change the
message up every I don't know 10 messages or so just change a word or like instead of like you
know exclamation point at the end just put a period it just little changes like that would
be helpful so Instagram doesn't think you're just like spamming people right but this guy was
sharing how he basically he's been growing such me he just literally when people follow him he just
reaches out and has a conversation basically via DM and that oftentimes he can lead it towards
a sale of something so if you do have a something you've built called the action ebook something
like that just start conversations ask questions and that'll one make your stuff show up higher in
the feed for those people because now they're engaged with your account but two it builds a
little bit of trust and if you see opportunity there just let them know about what you got going
on it's potentially a way you can accelerate the sale before you're just waiting for them to
see a post and find it he was saying I just reach out to these people and we have conversations and
then it'll lead to the sale a little bit faster so yeah just three things I want to share from
that call just little takeaways then we'll do some Q&A I did see a Facebook or sorry a
question in the app I wanted to address as well but let's do Susan first Susan see you got the
hand up here hi hi well first of all thank you for this this is great so basically I just want
to reiterate you you said that the words in the hooks and the captions are what the algorithm is
saying versus hashtags or hashtags yeah captions hashtags matter definitely a lot less than they
used to your hashtag used to be everything it was like what hashtags do you use but that you know
if we kind of see where the a like AI technology is going it's almost like imagine like two years
from now Google might not exist right it's like you google something and AI is just going to say
here's what you want you know which is kind of scary right like you won't be able to actually
search through stuff as much but same thing with Instagram they're less like they don't need as
much help to figure out what your post is about hashtags used to be like kind of like one helping
Instagram know what your post was about but two helping other people who like would follow hashtags
find those things but it's definitely way less powerful I think like you I think I've seen people
do studies on this where they like oh I did some posts with hashtags some posts without and it's
like there's not a major difference so I wouldn't stress about finding the right hashtags I would
just use words that call out your person so for your account the dance account I would just be
make sure you're using the word dance in every post somehow sneak it into a sentence use the
word you know other words related to dance that like they might be searching you're going to use
those type words ballet choreography I kind of want to get more moms I'm kind of bigger with
the college crowd which is fine I'm not complaining but um um you know just to maybe say you know show
your mom this or something like that show your mom this post um something yeah you could say
yeah you could do that or just even using the word mom in some of the captions
yeah Instagram will try it to moms you know um uh but yeah like that's one of the ways and also
not just the captions but Instagram can read what's in the video you know so if the video you
put a thumbnail on there with a caption they can read that and the reason I know that is because
we used to do like giveaways on Instagram and uh even back then this was like probably four years
ago if you had a photo and you had the word giveaway on it Instagram would not show it to
people they would like suppress it so um because they didn't want people like just growing that
I don't know.
So we know that they have that technology
to kind of like read what's in the photo, so to say.
And so those two things combined,
just using those trigger words.
So if you wanna see if you can get in front of more moms
or parents, just sneak those words in there,
you know, in a natural way, you know,
try to make a cap about it or something.
And it should start to show to the audience.
Got it, okay, okay, got it.
Oh, lastly, I was on the call with Yulia,
but it never happened.
Something happened with the Yulia call?
Oh yeah, they posted about it.
I think she canceled last minute,
but they're gonna reschedule it.
Yeah, I just saw, I think Michelle posted in the group
that she, I don't know if she got sick
or something came up.
Got it.
But yeah, that'll be fun.
No worries, I just wanted to make sure it wasn't on my end.
That's something I had to fix.
Okay, sounds good.
No, yeah, you're good.
Yep, sounds good.
Oh, and I just, I mean, I mean,
I don't know if you care about this,
but I had to spend some money anyway
in order to get my business credit up.
Okay.
I don't know how they make you do those three.
Oh yeah, yeah.
So I got t-shirts that say at Positively Dance,
and I'm gonna give them to like some bigger studios.
Oh, that's cool.
That's awesome.
I had to spend money anyway,
so I said, let's do that.
Just see if it works.
Yeah, that's cool.
I like the idea of giving to studios.
And then, I mean, you could do a giveaway.
Like I said, don't say the word giveaway too much,
but you could say,
you could also give a couple away on your Instagram.
That'd be kind of fun.
I met this guy down here and I was like,
this is a genius idea.
It costs money,
but he runs a supplement business.
Like, you know, like those,
like you walk in and buy the protein powders and stuff.
Like this guy's like, he's super big.
You know, you gotta be,
if you're running one of those stores, right?
So he, with every purchase, gives someone a t-shirt.
And so he like,
every year he's buying tons of t-shirts,
giving away t-shirts.
Imagine if, like, he's been doing this for years.
Now his t-shirts are all over this county.
Like people are wearing them all the time.
And oh, hey, did you make those cookies?
Ooh, yummy.
We made cookies.
That's gonna be good.
Aw, diehard Padre fan.
Well, we're trying to fit in down here, you know?
Exactly, awesome, awesome.
I'm a Padre's fan.
We haven't watched one Padre's game yet, to be honest,
but he really likes the jersey.
And I like the hat,
because it's SD, Stephen Diaz.
So I was like, this is, you know?
But yeah, we wanna go to an actual game.
I think that'd be really,
we wanna go to an actual game, Padre.
They're so much fun.
They're seriously so much fun.
Yeah.
Yeah, I think that'd be fun to go.
No, I don't want to.
Okay.
Oh, you'd have a great time.
She said you'd have a great time.
You can't hear her,
because she's in my ears.
He's like, what?
I forget what we were talking about,
but oh yeah, T-shirts.
He gives me these T-shirts.
It's just great advertising, right, for his brand.
And so yeah, but you could do it
as a giveaway of some sort.
Like, hey, my, whatever,
your 100th follower or something,
or it could be,
or celebrating, like,
we're celebrating reaching 100 followers.
Tag a friend down below who likes dance,
and we'll be raffling off a couple prizes or something.
You could always do something like that.
I see that.
It definitely still works.
I think it's,
what you don't want to do is give away stuff
that's totally not related to your niche.
We used to see people do this,
oh, I'm giving away an iPhone,
and then people would follow for the iPhone,
but they didn't care about the account, right?
So you always want to do stuff
that's like the T-shirt's good,
or if there's something else related to the niche
that's going to attract that type of person,
that'll definitely help.
Excellent.
Thank you.
Yeah.
Okay, cool.
Suzanne, I see your hand up.
I don't, I can't click it,
but let me know if I'm muted.
Yes, sir.
Can you hear me?
Yeah, I got you.
Okay.
I just wanted to ask,
I came up with a book idea
that goes with my Instagram handle.
Oh, wow, cool.
And I read it to my family,
and they said, do something with this.
Yeah.
And it's being illustrated right now.
So I just was wondering,
do you think it's possible with the audience that I have
to maybe try to market some of them on my page?
Yeah, no, I think so.
Tell me the Instagram page you have again.
It's 80 Acres Diesel Farm.
I can share it with you.
Okay, I'm just going to try to pull it up here.
80 Acres.
Oops.
Hold on, I got to put my hand out here.
Don't fall, okay?
Okay.
I'm pulling it up.
My cat won't leave me alone.
80 acres.
80 acres farm.
80 acres diesel farm.
Diesel farm.
I'm about to get back over here somewhere.
Yeah, here we go.
Now, let me find the chat.
Oh, you got a cookie over there waiting for you, bud.
Sorry, I should have got that done.
There you go.
There it is.
I'll take this.
Thank you.
I'll see you in a second.
OK, I got it.
80 acres diesel farm.
OK, there it is.
I was looking at it.
There's an 80 acres farm on there I saw, too.
Well, whenever I had that trouble with my account,
I started, I opened another account,
but I never did anything on it.
And I'm scared to delete it, so.
That's OK.
OK, so yeah, tell me about the kids book.
Is it related to farming?
It is.
Well, I just got, it just popped in my head one day.
And it says, it starts out, a boy who
lived on 80 acres diesel farm.
And it rhymes because I'm a Dr. Seuss fan.
OK, yeah.
So.
That's great.
It's about two years.
I can't put it on Amazon, I don't think,
because it's only like 10 pages.
And it's geared towards the younger two, three years old.
Yeah, yeah.
I think as long as it relates to the niche,
as long as it relates to the niche,
it's worth trying for sure.
But as far as, as far as like.
Go ahead.
You got it.
I was just going to say it's on the, it happens on the farm
and it talks about the diesel trucks
that the little boy watches and helps his dad fix trucks.
And the chickens and the cows and everything
are all around too.
Yeah.
No, I like it.
Sorry, I pulled this out.
I'm trying to put it back, but I don't know what's going on.
I like it.
I think like, I think, let me think, how do you sell it?
So because like Amazon's ideal because they're
going to print it for you.
But there are probably some sites
you'd find to print it that will do a smaller book like that.
Are you thinking about actually doing a physical book copy?
Well, I was thinking about some of that,
but that's what I wanted to ask you.
I don't know what.
It's been so long since I've had little kids.
I don't know if people do digital more or if they.
Yeah.
And I feel like people are still doing physical books so much.
I mean, of course, like you can do digital.
But I think, I don't know, at least for us,
I'm like, I want to avoid doing tons more screen time
with the boys.
So I like the physical thing.
I found one that's like, so what you might do is.
I thought maybe I could find a print on demand.
That's what I'm thinking, yeah, like print on demand or.
Let me see here.
What is the one we used?
It's called.
Oh, man, I'm blanking on the name.
Does anyone know?
It connects to Amazon.
What is that called?
It'll come to me later.
But we definitely use one that connects to Amazon.
And you basically can do print on demand.
I also just was Googling like children's book printer.
Because if you can find one that allows you,
what I wouldn't do is I would just
What I like to do is like order a couple of samples, right?
Like this is like, OK, landscape 10 by 10,
or sorry, large square, 10 by 10.
Here's landscape, here's letter.
So you got to figure out what style it's going to be.
And then.
Well, I got someone from Fiverr to illustrate it.
And she's doing her style that I'm doing right now.
And I'm like, OK, I'm going to do that.
And she's doing her style.
This is too expensive.
Oh, my goodness.
She wasn't cheap.
But I know I'm saying I don't know if you're seeing my screen,
but I'm I'm sharing my screen right now.
I'm looking at a quote for a children's book,
and it's five hundred dollars for twenty five.
And I'm like, OK, you don't want to go with that company.
But that's a good idea to go with them.
To go over to design it.
Yeah, I don't know.
I would you know, I might tag Camden.
I know she has she has a lot of resources when it comes to printing
children's books overseas, which eventually if you're doing a lot of sales,
that's how you're going to get the best cost on it.
But for now, I'd probably find.
Yeah, let me let me Google print on demand children's books.
Let's see.
See if the one that we use comes up here.
I forgot the minimum is on KDP. Do you remember? Is it like 15 pages or something like that?
Um, I don't know. I'm just going, I don't really know. The girls though that I did talk to on
Fiverr said they thought their Amazon required like 20 something pages. Yeah, it looks like 24
pages. So it'd be hard to stretch it to 24 pages, but you might be able to like, okay, there's a
blank or blank page beforehand. You got a dedication page, right? Like do you have a title
page? So yeah, I do. I do have that, but I will, um, I'll show you she's, she's going to do the
whole book. Yeah. Okay. One thing you could do, I won't add a lot of extra Fiverr expense is you
could put some blank pages on the back and like make them like coloring pages, you know? So maybe
she takes her illustrations she makes and then takes the color out of them and basically makes
them like coloring pages on the back. And then you could like get it up to 24 pages and then
you could do Amazon. Yeah. Um, that could be kind of fun where it's like you have the book portion,
but then like, it's also kind of functions as a coloring book as well, where they get to color
this stuff from the book they just read, you know? Cause if she's already done the illustrations,
that might be pretty easy to just make a coloring book version of them.
You can see that it was that, that one page that she's, I put it on there. I don't know.
Where is it? Yeah. She gave me a sample page. Oh yeah. I don't know if that one's going to
open up for me. Cause it's, I think it's on your, on your computer maybe. No, I copied it from my
phone, but yeah, I don't know. It seems like it's not going to do it. No worries.
Um, but yeah, that might be a way to, cause KDP, we have all the training on it. It's just a little
easier. People are familiar with Amazon. So then you can say, Hey, it's on Amazon. It's a little
easier to sell because people already have the Amazon account. Um, so if you could do that,
like the coloring book thing, or you could just add some middle pages, like, you know,
like in between that are more illustrations with less words or something. So there's definitely
ways to pad it. I know, like, I think our Rainmaker book was like that, where it was like,
it was a little short. So I just had to like add extra pages, um, to make it work. But, um,
but then yeah, you unlock kind of all of Amazon and there's probably honestly some keywords.
We have a video, I think in the course on product research for KDP, which is like Amazon books. Um,
I'll send it to you here. Let me see. Keyword research. No, no, no, no. Can you pee?
Yeah. So here it is. Kindle direct publishing product research. So you also might look at this
and there potentially could be some, it could be some, uh, what do you call them? Uh, keywords
that you could find that will actually help it sell off of Instagram or sorry, on Amazon,
as opposed to Instagram you'll sell on Instagram because that's your niche, but you might as well
optimize it for Amazon too. Cause there's probably people search like tractor books for
two-year-olds and like, you know, certain keywords like that. So I'll put this in the chat for you.
Okay. I was trying to screenshot it now. Almost. Oh, let me pull it up again here.
Okay. I got it. There you go. Cool. Yeah. I like it though. Um, books, I think especially kids'
books, if, if your niche, you know, if they go along with the niche, we'll see these, we'll see
this work really well. I've even seen it in like pages that aren't for kids, right? Like it's the
parents following the page, but I've seen this work really well for, you know, they make some
sort of book specific for that audience, but it's for their kids. Right. So they'll take, you know,
entrepreneur book for kids are, you know, there's this one, um, what is it? Quantum physics for
babies, you know, it's just funny, but it works. Like people buy it. This is probably more like a,
um, I don't know. It's just, it's a story. Like I would have read to my boys when they were
little and I, cause I read to them every night. So I would read it to them and then, you know,
when they would go to bed. Yeah. That's awesome. There's one other, like, um, we've I've used this
one other software child book. What is it? Children's child book. I'm going to say it's like
AI. Let me just make sure I have the right one. I've used this once before. It sounds like you've
already written the book and everything. So I was going to ask you if I paid too much to have it
illustrated. What did you pay? 1200 for her to do the whole book. The, um, the,
and she's doing the top, the, about the author and everything.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
I mean, it depends on the illustrator, honestly.
So, um, yeah, some illustrators are a lot pricier.
I would say that's like mid, it's not like crazy expensive.
It's not crazy cheap.
It's definitely kind of mid, you know, you could probably have someone do it for
$500, but it's not going to look great, you know, that's what I did.
If I'm going to do it, I'm going to go ahead and do it.
But when I, when I'm shopping for my grandkids or whatever, you know, the
first thing I'm going to say, if I'm shopping for that age is, oh, these
pictures pop, you know, cause the little ones, that's what they look at.
Yeah.
That's so true.
Yeah.
So this I've used this once before, childbook.ai as like just an experiment.
Um, and it's good, not great, but it might be better now because
the AI technology is better, but just for anyone else, if you want to
create a kid's book, this site, it's like, oh, that's basically it.
You kind of give it the prompt and, uh, and everything, and it'll help
you basically create when using AI.
Um, sometimes the, sometimes the foes are not like, um, they, it's hard to
get the character to stay the same, but it looks like they've gotten better at it.
Like I'm clicking on this, this is an example book.
Yeah.
So, I mean, it looks like they've actually improved it a good amount.
It's not, I mean, like not the fanciest book, right.
But yeah, I get it done.
Um, and then they also have a, you can actually actually order it through here.
So you can actually order the book right through the site, which is kind of cool.
So it's a, it's a, it's a nice one for like, if you're trying to
just make a sample real quick, um, that's what we were using it for.
Just like get something in hand, prove the concept, you know, and
then make it better over time.
But yeah.
Yeah.
That's neat.
I like that.
I love that.
Do you have that, uh, I don't know where you get that Steven, but
that'd be great to put in the chat.
I'll put it in the chat.
Yeah.
It's a child book.ai, child book.ai.
And I think like, let me see if I have accounts still here.
Yeah, I might've could have saved myself some money with that.
It won't be as custom, you know, cause again, the AI is like, I wish I could
log in and show you guys.
Cause like I did a couple of books on here and it was like, it was okay.
You know, let's see if this is the account.
Let me see if I can.
Yeah.
I don't know if this is the account I did it on.
Welcome your characters.
It looks like they've definitely gotten better where you can like actually make
characters.
Cause that was the problem when I did it first, it's like, I tried to make
something about Kai and Ollie and it was like, I look different in every page,
you know, so it's like, it's actually gotten better on that front.
That's cool.
And I think what I would, I remember when I did it, it said it did well.
If your story's about one kid, as opposed to like two or three, it
gets a little bit trickier.
Yeah.
If you make it about, make it about like basically one, it just does a little bit
better.
Yeah.
And if it works, I'll do it again.
Yeah, totally.
Yes.
I got it.
I have to do something.
Okay.
I screenshotted that.
Cool.
So I'll put it on there.
There.
Now you can see it.
Oh, in the chat.
Okay.
It's loading here.
Yeah.
So let's see here.
The only thing I told her, she needed to change some features on the boy, but.
Yeah.
I mean, it's very like, it's very detailed.
Custom.
Yeah.
That's awesome.
I, I would, I would guess she's using a little bit of AI in there, you know,
but, but then like photo, like kind of Photoshopping it together and adding
like blending it all.
Like that's pretty hard to do.
Yeah, it is.
Because, uh, I had a harebrained idea thinking, Oh, I can just download one
of these AI art things, you know, and I can, I play with it for a little bit.
And I said, uh,
yeah, yeah.
It's hard to make it like cohesive like that.
Yeah, it is hard.
Okay, cool.
Awesome.
What I would do that now, I mean, for your, for your Instagram, I would start
to talk, share about it a little bit, you know, um, it's hard because you
don't have a physical hand, but even a photo like that, you know, you could
share that on your store, you could share that on your, your feed and say,
we're putting something together, like get excited, like kind of like warm it
up.
If you, so people will know something's coming, um, since you're working on it,
it might be some time before it's done and, you know, on Amazon or wherever,
but a lot of my captions rhyme now.
Okay.
I added that in my.
So that, you know, maybe it would be a little, you know, a little bit more, I don't know, a lot of people don't read the captions. I feel like sometimes, you know, they just flip too fast. So I started making most of mine rhyme. And I do, because it's hard to pull a rhyme out of a lot of stuff, you know?
So I do ask, I do ask chat, you know, hey, can you help me come up with a rhyme for this? And then I just try to put my flavor in there with it. And I've been so busy lately, I haven't been as faithful on my posting, but it's still just, it's kind of a comforting sound now.
I've gotten used to hearing my phone, you know, bling, bling, bling. Because I'm like, people are watching. If I don't hear that, then I'm like, hey, nobody's watching my stuff.
Yeah.
That's awesome.
Yeah. But anyway, I just was wondering if that you thought that would be that, that I could do that on there. So, if you think it's okay.
I think so. Yeah, no, I think you can do anything you want to do, you know, but you don't know until you kind of test it. So that's where I say I would, I would definitely keep. All right, I'll start talking about it, see.
But I mean, once you have a book, you know, you can do a lot with a book too, outside of Instagram. You can get it on Amazon, you can keyword it, you could sell it to your local, you know, boutique, kids store, bookshop, you know.
There's a lot of things you can do with books, but it does resonate, it does go with your audience that you're building on Instagram. So you would think it would work, but we really don't know 100% until we test something.
Sure. Yeah.
This is true.
You kind of reminded me like we were talking with a couple weeks ago. If anyone else has any, feel free to raise your hand, but I was looking at Slido, or it's like the end of the accountability form we have people submit questions to there so I saw a couple there.
I saw a couple this week I was thinking of you guys. Let's see here if I can find it though. Like they put these out of order. Let's see.
Just trying to find it real quick. We were talking about using curiosity, basically, in your posts. I forgot if that was someone here, or maybe it was Susan.
Yeah, Susan. Yeah, I've been seeing more and more of those I've been trying to save them so I could show you a couple examples.
I don't know, I feel like my saving posting is not working great right now. You know where it was. Okay, hold on, let me try this.
No, didn't work.
Darn.
I've been seeing more of those where you know they're using curiosity, like what I just watched one like today. It was like, there was like seven things they were doing or something like that in this video, it was like, you know, the seventh one really got me right
there was something about the last thing in the video that really made me watch the whole thing, because I was like, I want to see what the seventh one is. And, you know, using hooks that build a little bit of curiosity to like what's ahead in the video, and especially
like it's kind of like we call it like the payoff right like the payoff of watching this thing, like maybe it's a joke or the punchline or the, the, you know, the funny thing that happens like, like, wait till you see it right using curiosity.
Susan Did you try that at all on the dance thing. Have you tried that yet.
Yes, I did. I, and as a matter of fact, you know, it sometimes it just makes sense sometimes it doesn't I should have done it with one because I did thriller today, you know, okay yeah and I should have said, guess how many years since thriller was because it's
So, um, but, um, well I know when it first came out.
But it was, it was so long ago and then I didn't do it on that but I have done it on some, and I think it's good. People don't comment as much but they do share a lot, and they say, so I don't know if that's the new thing people are doing but a lot of shares, and that kind of thing.
I need to get better at it though. I'm not as as good as I want to be but it's in my mind. So, yeah. Okay, cool.
That's good.
Yeah, shares and saves are good Instagram is looking at everything right they're looking at followers.
So we're going to comments likes the watch time right of how long they watched it as well as shares and save like it's kind of like they're looking at everything.
breathing, those are all positive actions.
And so, yeah, like, it sounds,
it seems like it's still kind of hovering
in that 2000 and under range.
Looks like it, I'm just looking at it now.
Yeah.
You did that one, you did the left or right one.
Yes.
And then no one said anything.
No one commented on it.
But they do, they like it a lot.
I'm getting about 10% of the people that view it like it.
Yeah.
Then they share and save it and not as many comments.
I'm gonna try DMing people.
And I do think, I'm hoping when I send these t-shirts
to the influencers that I know,
so they can wear it in the, you know, company setting.
Yeah.
I'm hoping that'll boost it as well.
I feel like I'm there,
cause I have a lot of interactions.
But, and then I started doing it later at night.
I feel like that makes a difference
because then the algorithm sends it out more.
Otherwise, if I do it in the morning,
they send it out to like 20 people.
It could just be, yeah,
the audience is on at that time or something.
Scrolling a little bit more so it works better.
I don't know if you have any other suggestions.
I'm kind of trying everything.
I think you're doing good.
I think the curiosity thing is big
and it takes a little bit to learn it, you know.
But trying to find something at the end of the video,
if there's something.
And not every video fits either, right?
Not every video has some sort of thing at the end.
Exactly.
A lot of them don't.
I was like, shoot, I kept looking at all these things.
Yeah.
I was looking for like,
what's the thing that's gonna catch their attention?
I wish, I know I saved it somewhere,
but it must've been like on Facebook.
Cause I thought it was on Instagram.
Let me see if it's on there.
I saved definitely like two this week
that I was like, oh, like whenever I see them
and I'm like, oh, that was really good use of curiosity.
I try to save that.
Cause then it's like, you don't have to reinvent the wheel.
You can kind of just go look at what's already working
and do that type of thing.
I did say to one, look at the guys,
look at everyone in the background.
Cause they were just kind of glaring at this guy.
And that, I mean, that had a lot of views, but.
Okay.
Oh yeah, I see that.
Check out the dancers in the background.
Yeah.
Cause it kind of makes you watch it.
I'm sorry.
I know I'm not sharing my screen, but there you go.
It kind of makes you just watch it
a little bit closer, you know?
Yeah.
And they're just kind of standing there.
Like no big deal.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's like finding that little nuance
that you can poke at.
And that one did get actually a lot more views.
Yeah.
2,500.
Cause people are kind of like looking for that thing.
I think I did it on the pointe shoes as well.
That girl with her cell phone right there.
This one.
But you didn't know what pointe shoes are really made of.
Yeah, that makes me think like, what is,
what are they really made of?
I'm looking for.
Wait, is there a payoff though, or no?
Oh, it says it in here.
Yeah.
Oh, I see.
I was waiting for the video to reveal then.
Oh yeah.
No, that's, that would be great,
but she's breaking them in
cause they have to be broken in.
But yeah.
And then you kind of answer it here.
Okay, got it.
It's still catchy though.
And that one actually did get a lot of views.
Yeah.
So there's something there, you know?
Something there about that curiosity.
Cool.
Okay, starting screen.
I saw in the app, let's see here.
Where did it go?
Here it is.
I think it was Risha posted a couple of times
about getting a copyright warning on her account.
And what me and you were talking about this,
we want to put together a little bit of like a cheat sheet
for you guys on stuff like this that might happen,
when we're done with this accelerator,
of course you can post in the mastermind group
and we're kind of talking as a team
of ways we can keep supporting
the media channel side of things
cause a lot of people are doing it.
So there might be some coaching calls
and things that happen in the mastermind at some point,
but we're going to put something together.
And this is definitely one of those ones
that can happen from time to time when it comes to,
and I'll just share my screen.
So if you guys see this happen,
you kind of know what it looks like.
So you can see Risha posted,
she had this like kind of warning, right?
Like if you believe this,
so basically she posted a post and it got removed.
saying she infringed on a copyright, basically, they have.
The person who has a copyright basically submitted this,
said like, hey, this person can't use my content.
So this is part of the game when it comes to doing repost accounts,
and most people are totally fine with it.
Like I said, it's in the settings that you can do this,
but it's one of those things that anyone can just say,
oh, that's my content,
and then Instagram is not really checking it.
They're just like auto flagging it.
And so if this does happen, there's a couple of things you can do.
You can, I believe you can, there's like certain different type of ones,
but I know Yuke was talking about this,
like sometimes just emailing the person.
You don't want to like stack a ton of these.
It's not like you're going to go to jail over this or anything,
but if you have too many of them, it can affect your account.
Like Instagram would say, hey, this account's just a bunch of copyright stuff.
So it's good to like email them just say,
hey, we kind of like ask for forgiveness instead of permission, right?
So we're just like, oh, hey, we just have this account.
I just like to curate the best of the best cooking videos,
and I saw your video, I really loved it.
I gave credit and everything like that,
but if you don't want it on there, totally fine.
I know the poster was removed,
but would you be open to, since the post has been removed,
basically retract the copyright infringement since the post is removed, basically.
So you just like ask them that, and it's pretty easy for them to retract it,
and then it'll take this warning off your account.
Not everyone's going to do that.
Sometimes you see this like with more popular content, right?
Like you're sharing something from NBC News or something, right?
That's the type of stuff that typically gets copyrighted,
like you get a copyright strike on a little bit more often.
You typically don't see it on videos like this one,
which I think this is like just a cooking video,
it looks like this garlic oil one that she shared.
That's like typically not the type of one you're going to get.
So this is kind of rare, but I just want to let you guys know if it does happen,
just shoot them an email, apologize, hey, let's take it down.
Are you able to retract that?
Like I'm just trying to curate the best of the best,
and I like just give them compliments.
I loved you or whatever, and there shouldn't be any issues there.
If they don't, it's okay.
It'll live on your account in the backend and your account,
what do they call it, status with Instagram,
and you just want to make sure you don't have like tons of them,
you know, like 10 of them stacking up, right?
But again, fairly rare that it happens,
but I want to kind of equip you guys if you do see it happen.
It can be helpful too to have that, you know,
if you are reposting stuff from creators,
like sometimes you repost stuff from pages that are like just repost pages, right?
And they're just doing kind of what you're doing,
or maybe it's like a, you know,
a viral video that like no one really knows who the owner is,
and it's gone around the internet a lot, right?
That type of stuff, we typically, you know,
give credit because we don't know who made the video.
But if it is like a creator,
and they're like really put a lot of time into that video,
oftentimes we'll give them credit,
and we might even say, you know, DM for, you know, like removal or something.
I know Yuke says DM for credit or removal, right?
If you don't know who the credit is,
that kind of gives people a inline to before doing this,
and just going through Instagram to kind of say,
oh, that's my content.
Like they can come straight to you and say,
hey, I don't want that on your page.
Then you say, no worries, delete it.
You're done, you know, and then you don't stack these up.
So yeah, I just want to answer that one,
because she posted a couple of screenshots in here on it.
And Yuke, I know you jumped into that one as well.
Cool.
All right.
Any last questions from this room?
I was going to look at the end of week questions,
see if anyone had any there, but.
I have a quick question, Steven.
Yeah.
I have, what about scheduling?
Does scheduling in advance affect your algorithm?
Instagram won't admit it, but I don't know.
I've seen people say that like if you schedule,
you might get a little less reach, you know, but I don't know.
I've heard mixed things from different people.
I honestly think it's, if you're going to get a little bit less reach,
but you get to buy back your time basically
and not have to be on your phone all the time,
I think it's worth it.
So yeah.
Because I've been scheduling like two days in advance.
Okay.
And then some weeks.
Going slow other weeks. It's like nothing. It's a good view. So I was wondering I'm trying this week to just
Do it
Manually posting, you know to see if I see a difference
Yeah, personally, let's know what you see I've seen kind of mixed reviews some people it really kills their engagement some people it doesn't matter
You have you seen this? I saw your hand go up. I don't know if you have thoughts on that one
Yeah, I was just gonna suggest what Marla just said. It's like run a test
Yeah, like one to two weeks and then see I would say like me personally
I've seen it a big difference from scheduling like all posts versus posting manually. My
Assumption is because like Instagram wants you to spend time in the platform and then like schedule everything like you're not spending time
There is gonna reduce
This is also like all clients that they buy ads from me on a stoppable. They asked me to like a
Schedule, I post these manually. Please don't schedule. It's like I did see. Yeah, I did see the difference but tested like
Answers, I know they they don't they don't schedule unless of course like they schedule when it's like
Oh, I cannot post now like he and there you know, but like not like using too much
Yeah, I'm gonna try it again. I'm starting today. I created already the draft
So they are safe the draft
So I just have to post it at the time that I want to but I'm not doing it ahead of time
Like I've been doing okay. I'm gonna try that's good idea. Yeah. Yeah, I like that idea
Dude, do drafts then you're batching your work and then you just literally log in and you're able to post it really quick
Yeah, okay. That's a great idea. Yeah, okay. Good thing
Awesome
Let's see here
Should we answer that I think a bunch of these last week. Yeah, these are from last week. So you're good on those
All right, I
Think that's it today guys. Um
With smaller room today, so all good
Keep posting that that app if you have any questions throughout the week. We're kind of checking in on that Tiffany's checking in on that
and
Like I said truly free webinar on Tuesday. No Wednesday 9 a.m
It's you guys already know about truly free. So it's not like you need to be there
However, if it makes sense to invite people that you know, you want to refer to truly fee
Let us kind of pitch them on it and then
you can use your link and we're gonna be more promoting the
Consumer or affiliate side of a truly free not like that. You got us not the product side
It's more just like hey if you want to shop on this platform
Or you want to make money by referring people to shop on this platform. That's what we're talking about on Wednesday
So yeah, that's Wednesday 9 a.m. And yeah, and we'll see you guys throw that out on Thursday
So yeah, I'll talk to you guys soon. This repo will be up in the app in the replay section and
Yeah, we'll see you next week. Okay
Thanks so much. Yeah, we'll talk to you soon. Bye. Bye