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I'm going to show you how I easily create one reel every single day. And you guys, when you do it my way, it's so easy. I thought creating reels was super, super difficult. I procrastinated on it for so long, but now that I'm actually in it, it's so easy. And what I want to do is break it down and show you exactly all the things I did. I have four steps, plus three bonus tips, to make creating reels every single day really easy. Let's get into it.
By the way, if you want to see all these reels in action, and you want to continue to see me create reels and get better at them, and see as I learn more things and implement more things, be sure to go follow me on Instagram: maria.went. We're gonna put my handle up there. I'd love to see you there. Okay, so here are my best tips to help you make a bunch of reels super easy. It only takes about like eight minutes a day if you follow these steps to get yourself ready to do that.
First random tip: is to get your house clean. I know that sounds really weird, but if you're like me, you're gonna do a lot of your filming in your house. And I found that not having a place that felt clean, a place that felt organized, actually prevented me from creating the reels I wanted to make without me even knowing it. So I took like three weeks, and I deep cleaned my home. I had all kinds of systems going on where my floors were always clean and my counters are always clean, and I learned how to put my home to bed at night. I don't know if you've ever heard that expression before, where it's like you put your home to bed, meaning you get your household cleaned, so when you wake up the next day it's super nice. Is that if you need to put like a little baby on background, I think that's adorable? So I got my house clean, and that was one of the biggest things that actually enabled me to feel comfortable filming all the time, randomly as I'm going about my business, which is kind of one of the things you need to do if you're going to film reels on a consistent basis.
Second thing, and I think this is really important for us ladies, is that I started wearing clothes that I felt comfortable and attractive in. So some of you guys may know I had a baby a couple months ago, and I was kind of living my best mom life in big baggy oversized sweaters, oversized sweatpants. They made me look a lot larger than I actually was. I feel like I was drowning in all these clothing because I wasn't super confident, or I just hadn't taken the time to buy clothing that made me feel good. So what I did—this is so simple—I just like went out to Target, and I got a couple cute outfits, and that was like a weird switch for me. And so my new rule is I only ever wear clothes that are structured; so the clothes have to have like seams or like a structured shirt, and that's helped—that little rule has helped me feel more, more confident and feel more attractive, which has led me to being more comfortable to be on camera because I don't feel like I look like a big walking oversized baggy blob of sweatpants, which is what I was. And again, like it's okay, I just had a baby, I'm not beating myself about it, but I had a new goal, which was to film and start creating a bunch of content all by myself, and that's one of the things I needed to do.
Third thing, I think this is really important, is I am creating reels that feel super easy to make. So I am massively simplifying the reel creation process. I know that my reels are going to get better with time, so my rules might not be the best right now, but that is how literally everything starts. If you go back and watch my first YouTube video, it's so cringy, it's so bad, my presentation is bad, the lighting is bad, the audio is terrible, I sound like I'm underwater. Like if you go back and look at it, you can see the difference. Same thing with every Facebook live stream that I've ever done. If you go back and watch some of my first live streams, the quality is terrible compared to some of the more recent ones. That's normal. So what I'm doing is I am choosing to create reels that are very simple and very easy to make, and I'm not putting perfection pressure on myself because I just know they're not going to be perfect, and that's okay.
Four, this thing also is one of the big reasons why I was able to make these reels. I'm not even kidding, like literally eight minutes a day, eight to ten minutes a day is all I'm taking to make these reels. And the fourth thing that I'm doing is for the captions, I'm just reusing content I already have. In one of the videos I'm making soon, I'm actually going to be talking about why I love long captions and why a lot of people recommend that you use long captions in your Instagram reels. So if you want to see that video—it's actually going to be a step-by-step tutorial on how I make a reel; we're going to literally make a reel together—and if you want to make sure you don't miss the notification for that, be sure to subscribe and turn notifications on so you don't miss out. It's going to be a really good video; I'm super excited about it. Those captions that you're seeing in my reels, they're already written. I wrote them for emails, I wrote them for Facebook posts, I wrote them for ebooks. I already had a ton of content created that I just literally copy and paste into my caption. So again, it's super simple footage because I'm not overthinking the reels I'm making, and a really simple caption, and that's why it takes me eight minutes. I'm not overthinking this; I'm not making it take a ton of time; I'm just allowing myself to go in and get started. There are really crazy complicated reels you could be making, but don't worry about that right now; just worry about making really simple reels now.
I have three bonuses, um, and then I want to share something really special with you. Okay, bonus tip number one: I reply to every single comment because that helps boost views. So sort of like a basic engagement tip, you guys all should be doing this already with anything you're creating content on, but for me, anytime I'm creating new content on a new platform, one of the things I always do is just reply to every comment. And my bonus tip to the bonus tip is I like to reply to every comment with a question, so they'll reply back, and then it's a whole nother comment, so my engagement I feel like is always really good in proportion to the views I'm getting and in proportion to the likes I'm getting because I actually engage with my community. Let's bonus tip number one.
Bonus tip number two: The very first reel that I made all by myself, I was really insecure about it. I was so—yeah, I have an audience of like 300,000 women; I have 250,000 women in my Facebook group; I have an email list with 300,000 people on my, on my email list. I have a huge audience; I'm used to making content for a very big audience, but I still was really, really nervous for my first reel. I was like shaking; I was so scared to post it. And so what I did is I shared that reel to my story, and I asked people to engage with it. I was like, "Hey, I am super out of my comfort zone here, can you go like my reel?" And they did, and they left nice comments, and I felt supported and encouraged, and it was really nice. So don't be afraid to ask for what you want, and don't be afraid to be vulnerable and say, "Hey, like this is out of my comfort zone, can you take a minute if you see this and just go give some love on it?" People are really happy to do that, and it's okay to ask. Okay.
Bonus tip number three: This one I just recently started doing, and I love it. I create my reels—like I put my reels together while I'm on the StairMaster. So I'm literally getting my cardio in while I'm creating my reels, and I don't know why I didn't think to do this before, but it's worked really well for me. So I have a, like across the street from me right here is a gym, um, and I just like go across the street, get over my desk, go across the street, edit my reel, come back. But you can also, if you have a treadmill at home, you can go do it on the treadmill at home; you can do it while you're going for a walk. I like to feel productive; I like to feel like I'm getting things done, and I also just like to get a good sweat on; it's really good. And so for me to edit my reel and kind of put it together while I'm doing cardio, I'm killing two birds with one stone.
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