How to fix your (low) Instagram engagement!

You’re not getting engagement on Instagram… and it’s not because of the algorithm. In this episode, you'll figure out exactly why your content isn’t landing and what’s actually going on when your posts don’t get the traction they deserve. 

(Spoiler: it’s not your camera, your charisma, or your hashtags.)

Here’s what we’ll cover:

• The real reason your business's instagram posts aren't getting likes, comments, or reach
• Why blaming the algorithm is the WORST road to take
• The sneaky way expertise makes you BAD at marketing your business
• What my grandma’s recipe book and your Instagram feed have in common 🥚
• How to create content that makes your followers say, “Wait… are you in my head?!”

If your posts are flopping and you wanna get your engagement up, this is your episode. Let’s fix the actual problem so you can start getting the clickity-clicks, comments, and clients you deserve.

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Transcript

 How to fix your low Instagram engagement. Oh, friends, did I ever grapple with how to deliver this episode to you? I wanna give you the answers, but after working with thousands, and I will, I will give you the answers, but after working with. Over a thousand business owners in my program, magic Marketing Machine.

I know that there are different angles to this, and the reason that you're searching and searching online and you can't find an answer that's just point blank, how to fix your Instagram engagement. And if you did find that answer and then you tried something and it didn't work, there's a reason for that.

 Because you need to think like you're inside an ecosystem. Okay? A content meets business meets you ecosystem. 

And I think at the end of the day, explaining that to you  so that you can more objectively look at your own content and your own business and the choices you're making and your content and how you're making them,  I think telling you that in this format is gonna be more valuable than saying, just go do this post and put this hashtag on it because you're gonna do that and it's not gonna work, and there's gonna be a deeper reason why it didn't work.



 I don't wanna do you dirty, ?  Because there is a deeper problem.

The thing is, your low engagement is a symptom. It is not a sickness. It is a symptom.

And it could be caused by a few different categories. It could be a messaging symptom, or a content format  symptom. Now, first things first, we don't wanna blame the algorithm.   You're gonna be tempted to go, well, it's the algorithm. And I read this article about an algorithm change and its algorithm.

Algorithm. Don't blame the algorithm  because what you're doing is treating the algorithm, the Instagram algorithm, like this entity that has control over you and is willy-nilly and wild, and you are just gonna be at its whi. And if you do that, you take away all your power to fix the situation.

If it's true that there's just this algorithm and it decides who gets and who doesn't get, then we now like what's the point of even playing? Because it would be like you're gambling and you're not gambling with organic content. There is a strategy to organic content.

many of my clients have made,   10,000, 50,000, a hundred thousand dollars  from their organic Instagram content. There's a strategy to it. If it was  a risk to be posting content, then you wouldn't see this many businesses participating in it.

Okay? So we don't wanna just blame the algorithm and give away all our power.

  I worked in a comedy club for like eight years or something, and so I've seen a lot of comedians come off the stage and blame the audience . That's another thing we do. We blame the audience. They blame the house. Blaming the audience doesn't help you. It's another cop out. It's another way to go. There's this big, this power that be power at be powers that be. I always mess that up anyway. There's this, this power that I can't control  instead of looking at your own act, instead of reflecting.

Ding on how they could have worked the room a little bit differently, , instead of using the tools in their tool belt, they're just gonna blame the audience. It's a defense mechanism and it's a way to save our ego, but at the end of the day, the job is to entertain the audience, you know?

 

Listen, man, I used to do that too. I used to come off stage and be like, Ugh, it's a bad house. Or when I was in theater, we would do a matinee and it's like, oh, you know, matinee are usually lower energy than evening shows. Are they? Are they globally? Is that really true? Even if it is true, is it serving you to.

Cop out to that? Is it serving you to just assume that that's why you didn't get the response you wanted from these people? Because it's the afternoon instead of 8:00 PM

We're making excuses for ourselves.

 We're not gonna blame this all knowing algorithm, and we're not going to blame the people who are consuming the content. We're gonna take full responsibility for our engagement, and I'm gonna tell you something that might be happening in your head that's making you want to blame those other things instead of taking that on.





 As soon as you get really good at what you do, you get bad at talking to people about it. Specifically. You get bad at communicating with your leads. You learn all this new jargon. You hit a new level of awareness. You know, all these new things, things your leads don't know, and you stop speaking the same language as your leads.

There's an immediate misalignment, so this is a sign that you're really good at what you do. So we do have that to ride on. We can be proud of that. 

Here's an example. I remember this story where my great aunt went over to my grandma's house. I think that's who it was. It was, you know, decades ago. And so my great aunt goes in my grandma's house, and my grandma's helping her cook. And she's like, oh, I can't cook at all. My grandma's like, okay, I'll help you.

And so the recipe gets to a point where it's like, add a. Boiled egg, I dunno what they were making Jello salad. Uh, and half of this story isn't true. We're just trying to make a point here. , the recipe says, add a boiled egg.  And  my grandma says, add a boiled egg. And my great aunt goes, I don't know how to boil an egg.

Now the recipe isn't breaking down the part where it says boil an egg. It's just assuming the person reading the recipe knows how to boil an egg because the recipe book is too smart. It's too smart for its own good, so it's not properly communicating with its ideal client because it doesn't even realize that the ideal client isn't gonna know the egg thing.

The things that interest you are not the things that interest your ideal client. The things you think are cool and neat about your industry are not the things that your ideal client is,  gasping at.

The jokes that you and your colleagues laugh at are not the jokes your ideal client laughs at. You're on completely different playing fields. You're concerned about different things, and that's why they need you. . That's why they need to pay you for that expertise, for that knowledge.  One of the main reasons why people are not getting engagement in their content, it's not hashtags,  it's not because you're not charismatic on camera. ,  it's not because you need a fancier camera. It's none of those things. It's because you are saying things that aren't relevant to your idol client. You're not tuning into what they really truly care about and what's gonna get their attention and what's gonna make them write a comment on that post.

In my program, magic Marketing Machine, my clients use a method to prove that they are talking to their clients.  This is very important because we need to get engagement so we can get eyeballs.

So that we can sell to the people whose attention we now have, ?  This all works together in this ecosystem.  We  make sure that they are using their clients' exact language, that they're tuning into their exact needs, wants, desires, wishes.

We call it our genie training, and it's in our messaging module. And that's the type of homework that serves you for years and years and years. When you get good at this.  When your content hits home with people, they engage with it.

And sure. Maybe you need to tighten up your hooks. Maybe you need to try some shorter content that's under a minute long. We know Instagram now promotes videos that are under a minute long to, , non followers, and it's hard to get content that's over a minute long as of this recording to, , go out to non followers.

It could be a little glitch like that. Sure.

It could be you need to wipe the thumbprint off of your camera because it's making all your videos look a little blurry. And we know Instagram doesn't like to promote low quality content. So if the visuals look a little bit more high quality, they're gonna be more likely to promote it. It could be something like those things, but the content skills, those are easier to learn.  You can get the content skills. You can follow me on Instagram. I give content skills away all day long.

Maybe you need to write your font a little bit bigger because people can't read it because your font is too small. You know, it's, it can be silly things like  super simple things like that. But. After working with a lot of business owners in a lot of different industries. I can tell you it's probably coming down to aligning your brain with your ideal clients.

Bro. Marketers will sum this up by saying, well, the issue is your content shit. Oh, your content's not good. I, I hear that all the time. I don't like it. I don't think it's an empowering way to talk, but you know, they're trying to get attention and maybe some people that kind of language resonates, but I don't like it because it's not that it's shit, it's that it's misaligned.

Because you are too smart. You're too smart for your own good, and as soon as you start getting good at something, you lose sight of your ideal clients, what they're going through, and the words that they're playing inside their heads. So when you take those words, when you use our genie  process to take those words and put them into your content, suddenly people are like, wow, wow.

You see me? Wow. It's like you're inside my head. . These are the comments you're gonna start getting. It's pretty miraculous stuff. It's pretty game changing, and  that's why your engagement is actually broken, and that's what you need to do to fix it. So if you wanna know the exact strategy that my clients use to get clients from their content.

There's a free training under this podcast episode called How to Get Clients from Instagram Without Wasting Hours Glued to Your Phone. If you've listened to loads of these podcast episodes and you've never gone down and clicked that, now's the time to go down and click that. Now's the time to come join me in Magic Marketing Machine.

It's gonna tell you all about the strategy my clients use, and then invite you to join the program. It's not gonna be around forever. It is a very generous training.  Enjoy it, and I hope you start getting all the clickety clicks that your heart desires over on Instagram. I'll see you in the next one.