58: The Simple Reel Series Strategy That Generated 150K+ Followers and $32K

What happens when you commit to showing up on Instagram for 30 days straight...and accidentally gain 140K+ followers in the process? In this episode of The Creative Bodega, I'm sitting down with Amanda Jefferson, a Coven member who went from 5,000 to over 150,000 followers (and counting!) using a simple jar of tech tips and a whole lot of authenticity. We're breaking down exactly what worked, what broke (literally—her checkout page couldn't handle the traffic), and how she turned viral momentum into $32K in revenue in just one month. If you've been overthinking your content or feeling frozen about showing up on video, this conversation is your permission slip to just start.

Check out the full show notes for this episode, CLICK HERE.

Things I cover inside this episode:

• How Amanda created a 30-day content series using a simple jar system—and why "being weird" is actually your competitive advantage
• The exact tech setup she used to batch content efficiently (spoiler: it's simpler than you think)
• What to do when your systems break during a viral moment—including the genius "duplicate your checkout page" hack
• Why showing up imperfectly on video actually performs better than polished, scripted content
• How to turn viral growth into sustainable revenue with the right foundation (low-ticket offers, email list, and clear frameworks)

Resources & Links mentioned in the episode:

• Amanda Jefferson's Instagram account, go follower her ASAP!
• Maria Wendt - The creator Amanda follows for Instagram strategy and the "five ones" philosophy
• Descript - The video editing tool Amanda uses to edit videos like a Word document
• Rode Wireless Mini Microphone - my favorite wireless mic for recording reels!

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Transcript

Amanda 0:00

being a part of the coven was huge during this process because I just had your friendship and leadership M during the process and like I said, so many different people reaching out and I couldn't imagine going through this and not being part of the community'cause it just felt like such a close knit group of people that were cheering me on. So thank you for all that you've done to make it such a great place.

Em 1:01

I'm super excited to have Amanda Jefferson with us, who is a Coven member, and, she decided in early January to do a series, A 30 day series. And I wanna say that her third one showed up in my feed. And I always joke that I'm really not like a feed consumer. I'm really not a scroller. I think that's kind of what makes me. Probably better at what I do because I don't get lost in scrolling. I, I really get into Instagram and I get out, I get into reply to dms, reply to comments, and I get the hell out. and I feel like that keeps me sane and helps me not waste time. But Amanda's, real showed up and of course, being me, I couldn't help myself. I shot her a DM because I saw that she was like attempting to sell something and I was like, oh, like you might wanna like try to collect email addresses, whatever. I didn't really know what was happening. It was just me being a, a pain in the ass and being nosy. so I wanted to bring Amanda on because what ended up happening was phenomenal with her account. And it actually inspired me to have everyone inside the coven attempt to do a series challenge. And, so we're all kind of in the middle of that, or wrapping that up. but I, I just wanna let Amanda kind, introduce yourself. Like just tell us a little bit about you and then we'll kind of get into it.

Amanda 2:20

I am, Amanda and I have been in business for about 10 years. I left a big corporate job about 10 years ago and made the crazy decision to get trained by Marie Kondo to help people declutter and simplify their homes. And so my company was called Indigo Organizing, and I did that for about six or seven years and loved it. But my knees started hurting and I was sick of being in people's basements and garages. So I, and around the same time I really started noticing and started getting more requests for people to help them with their tech. Um, because no matter what age anybody was, everybody was completely overwhelmed with emails and files and passwords and photos and all of that. So, I started dabbling in that, and then it just went like wildfire. So I shut down kind of that in-person, part. And I've been doing this for about three years now, and I do one-on-one coaching and I have, online courses.

Em 3:15

Very cool.

Amanda 3:16

So, and I don't remember when I joined the Coven. I feel like it's been maybe like a year.

Em 3:20

I would say a year.

Amanda 3:21

Yeah. Mm-hmm.

Em 3:23

I, I, I would say at least a year. and let's just like spill the tea immediately. How much growth did you see from this as far as followers on Instagram?

Amanda 3:34

Yeah, so I just wanna back up for a second that I actually did the first post, I think it was December 27th. and it was like, somebody used this word the other day that I'd never heard before. It was in the Twix, miss. It was in the

Em 3:46

between. In between.

Amanda 3:47

Yeah. And I think Christmas and

GMT20260204-172924_Recording 3:49

New Year's,

Amanda 3:49

that actually had a lot to do with this because it was when everybody was like, what day is it? And I'm still wearing pajamas and I'm scrolling all day. So I think that was a big piece of it. Mm-hmm. Um, and so I started, so December 26th, I think I probably had a little bit over. 5,000 maybe. I was inching towards 6,000. My goal was to get to 10,000 followers by February. And

Em 4:16

from this series?

Amanda 4:17

No, just in general? No, just in general. Okay. To post more regularly, be more consistent. And my goal was to get to 10,000 and I am now at, I think this morning I hit 150, 2000. Yeah.

Em 4:33

It's insane.

Amanda 4:34

Yeah. Yeah.

Em 4:34

It's insane.

Amanda 4:36

well, the first two days, it was like, day one was like 60,000. Day two was another 60,000, and then there was like 5,000 days, and then it was trickling to 2000 a day, then 1000, and now we're at like 150 a day.

Em 4:52

Yeah. Yeah. Um, wild. Completely wild. Yeah. Um, so was it the first reel that took off? Was that the one that initially went viral?

Amanda 5:03

Yes. And then the second reel has now surpassed that. So I think the first reel is that maybe 750,000 and the second reel is at like 950,000.

Em 5:14

So this is actually, it feels very similar to kind of what happened to me. It, it was a reel. It was, uh, about something I wanna be known for. Thank God. I always, always tell people like, don't mess around with reels that are just funny and have nothing to do with what you talk about if you're a serious online business owner because it can really shoot you in the foot. and I. Kind of freaked out. I, I mean, I, my nervous system was so jacked up.'cause what went from, for me, I, I had just hit 10,000 followers and then I got like 60,000 in a day, and then it just went from there. And I, I don't know, I'm a sensitive soul, so I really kind of freaked out. Like, did you have any like, oh my God, like,

Amanda 5:58

yeah. Yeah, because I have like this, so I follow and I'll talk about her a lot because she's the reason why I do a lot of this. So I follow a woman named Maria went, And she's had had this weird hack that like, okay, as soon as you post log off, or like just shut down the Instagram app, get off Instagram for an hour. Because her thinking, or what she says is, um. You know, Instagram is trying desperately to get you back onto the platform. So it's gonna start sending you notifications and you're gonna be tempted to be like, and'cause it's that post, post post anxiety of like, of course. Am I getting like, am I getting comments? So first time ever that day I was like, okay, I'm gonna try this trick. And then I came back an hour later and I was like, what is happening? There was like practically like smoke coming out of my phone and I was like, yeah,

Speaker 4 6:50

okay.

Amanda 6:51

I didn't think this trick was gonna work like this. You know? And then it just, yeah. And so my nervous system was completely, you know, like what is happening? And it's funny'cause the, when I record day two, I was like, you guys think something crazy happened? I'm at 15,000 followers. So I guess it didn't really start to take off until the next day, but I was already starting to freak out.

Em 7:12

Oh

Amanda 7:12

yeah. And then I think what was really hard was, you know, things were breaking, so my ManyChat completely broke. Um, I

Em 7:20

saw that

Amanda 7:20

my checkout page completely broke, and so it was navigating all of that and also like, oh my God, all these people wanna gimme their money and they can't gimme Their money right

Em 7:30

now. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, For, yeah. This is making my heart be just thinking about it. I actually then hired a, a va, like, that was like, I put it out, an SOS on my story is like, I can't keep up with comments. I can't keep up with my dms, like, I need someone to help me. did you kind of like let go of replying? You have to let go of replying to people and don't you think?

Amanda 7:52

Yeah. Or,

Em 7:52

Yeah. Like, you gotta like let it go at some point.

Amanda 7:55

Yeah. Because I think people think, and I had just let my VA go like two months ago.

Em 7:58

Yes, I remember.

Amanda 8:00

Yeah, I did.'cause like, I think the first video has something like 13,000 comments or something.

Em 8:05

It's insane.

Amanda 8:06

So it's not

Em 8:07

Yeah.

Amanda 8:07

Mathematically possible. But what I did learn is like little tricks, like you can go in your dms and filter by unread, because what was happening was that people were like, I bought the course, but I didn't get my confirmation or, so I was getting kind of like customer service requests in there Yes. To kind of filter through and find those.

Em 8:28

think one of my favorite parts about this, and I know because you shared it inside the membership, but I talk us through like why you initially did this.

Amanda 8:36

So, a big part of Maria's, philosophy, like she has something that's called the five ones and it's one product solving one problem to one audience on one platform for one year. and that is all. And I was doing that plus a million other things. And so I sort of, the second half of 2025 for me was radical simplicity. I let go of so many things. I let go of my podcast, my get it done live club, my monthly workshops, and I was just kind of shedding, shedding, shedding. Mm-hmm. And making room for what I wanted to do, which was basically show up on Instagram every day. Basically driving. My whole goal was a hundred checkout views per day to my low ticket offer, and I was getting, at the time, maybe 20 checkout views. So that was my goal. Traffic, traffic traffic, traffic, traffic through consistency.

Em 9:32

but I feel like you also said you were just kind of like not posting maybe regularly and struggling to fit.

Amanda 9:40

Yes.

Em 9:40

Just the overwhelm of what, what do I post? When do I post it? What am I talking about?

Amanda 9:45

Yes.

Em 9:45

And so explain, you know,'cause you know, we're turning this into a podcast episode despite it being a coven q and a. Like, what was your, what was your thing? Like, tell'em about the jar and how did you even come up with that concept?

Amanda 9:59

you know, I had been doing, I've done it all, like the content pillars and the themes and you know, all of that kind of stuff. And I had been pretty consistent and was seeing, you know, a little bit of growth, but I just kind of hit that Christmas time holiday window and just got tired and just disillusioned with. Oh, God, it's so hard to like, think of what to say every day.

Em 10:22

Yeah. Yeah.

Amanda 10:22

Um, so I, I had actually seen another creator. She was doing a hundred days of speaking to the camera without using filler words and no cuts. And That's hard. It was a hundred days. And I was like, oh, that's kind of cool. Like, and I had just seen a lot of people doing these series and I was like, I'm so lazy. I have no idea what I wanna talk about.

Speaker 4 10:44

Yeah.

Amanda 10:45

And I was just like, I'm just gonna put a bunch of tips in a jar. Like, I don't know. Yeah. It just kind of occurred to me. And I remember writing all the little notes out and thinking, this is so stupid. Like, this is gonna go nowhere and I'm gonna commit to 30 days and I'm gonna have to, and it's, it's

Em 11:01

slo it'll be a slog.

Amanda 11:04

I know. And I just remember being like, this is so lame. And then I remember when I recorded it, and I think that's why it went a little bit viral because I wasn't like, hello, I'm Amanda Jefferson. Mm-hmm. I was like. Yeah. I don't know what to say. And I,

Em 11:19

you straight up were like, I'm overwhelmed, so I'm just gonna force myself to get on video and answer questions. And I was like, that's refreshing.

Amanda 11:27

No, I think if I had started being all like, hello everyone. Yeah. And 30 days I don't, it would've

Em 11:33

people just tune you out.

Amanda 11:34

Yeah.

Em 11:34

It's, I know, and anytime I've, you know, make a reel now I try to keep in that stuff like, don't edit it out, don't water yourself down. Like, you know, just be true to who you are and whatever comes out, comes out

Amanda 11:47

a hundred percent. So really it wasn't me thinking, oh my God, this is gonna go crazy. It was me like, I gotta kick my own butt and make myself do something for 30 days.

Em 11:54

Yes, yes, yes. Which I loved. And, and, and that like really spoke to me because I was sort of in a similar. Towards the really, pretty much all of last year, to be honest. 2025. I was just carousel, carousel, carousel like,'cause I just was like, I don't, I'm feeling so frozen when it comes to reels and showing up and I don't know why. And it's just, there's some block there. And then when I saw you doing that, I was like, what a great way to like get outta my own head and get outta my own way and just show up. and the other cool thing is that it was like a, you taught from a framework. Yes. So you had a framework which really helped, I think, establish your expertise. Like

Amanda 12:36

Yes.

Em 12:36

You were like, this is not just me picking, like I've got a whole thing.

Amanda 12:40

Yes. Yeah, a hundred percent. So when people have reached out to me, because a lot of people have like done their own take on the tip jar. Mm-hmm. I've said that like, if you don't already have a framework, think about creating one and use chat two PT to make it something fun and memorable because it just like, it just really helps people. Like immediately, like when I started putting up and I didn't even have a little graphic, I was just, just explaining it in the first couple days and then when I was getting feedback from people, they were like, oh my gosh, you just described all of the problems that I had. Then I ran into Canva and just made a little graphic about it. Um, and now that has much more become kind of like the foundation of what I talk about and it's helped my content. A lot.'cause it's like, oh, well if I'm describing 199% of what people are struggling with, then this is working. You know?

Em 13:26

Right, right. This something I'm actually really, really curious about is, if it sparked any, like, new offer ideas or if it really helped you. hone in on your ideal. Biggest struggles or

Amanda 13:41

yeah, a hundred percent. I think one of the things I learned was basically the idea of turning it into a freebie. So now it's, you know, the tech jar freebie kind of thing. and so in the past couple of days, the past week, I've been focused on getting as many people as possible over to my email list. Good. And the freebie has been a really great way to do that. Yeah. I wish Now with my new series that I'm gonna be starting, I'll start building that freebie from day one.

Speaker 5 14:06

Mm-hmm.

Amanda 14:07

Instead of having to go back and build it, I'll just add each tip as I go. But that, and then it has definitely changed because I'm gonna be creating a whole new product called the tech Vault, which is almost like, imagine like an exercise library where you can go on and it's like legs, abs, core, whatever. This is gonna be like. iPhone, Google, Mac, and you can kind of choose your own adventure. And it's basically my brain in a living library that I will be updating. Yeah. And that will have a much higher price point. So you'll, you can buy the Tech survival Guide at the$27 and that's kind of the intro to the tech traps and mm-hmm. A few really great tips, but if you want access to all that, then maybe that's, I don't know, 1 97 or something like that.

Em 14:52

Yeah. Are those videos or are they written out?

Amanda 14:54

They will be videos and, Kajabi. So I actually switched from thrivecart to SamCart and Kajabi because Thrivecart with kind of a nightmare during this whole process. Kajabi has that kind of like video library configuration where you can like filter Got it. In different ways and slice and dice the way that I want to.

Em 15:13

That's awesome. That's great. Yeah. and what is the new freebie. you said it's like a jar free, like a tip jar freebie, or,

Amanda 15:20

yeah. So basically, you know,'cause a lot of people have said. One of the biggest pieces of feedback or complaints that I would get is like, you're not, show you and um, you actually said this. Yes. Like, how are you getting away with not showing us exactly how to do it? And my response to you was sheer laziness. Yes. I don't wanna,

Em 15:38

which like blew my mind. Blew my mind because I'm so visual. So anytime I have to do a how to, I'm like, and here's my screen and here's how we're doing. And you were just like, this is what you need to set up. And you're like, okay, bye. And I was like, how are you not? Yeah,

Amanda 15:50

right. And I did start putting some more screenshots and things like that, but I was just like, listen, you know, I'm more exposing you to, did you know that this is even possible?

Em 16:00

Yeah.

Amanda 16:01

And then if you want the how, then you can have that. And that's where, you know, paying me comes in. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. And so I did get, you know, a little bit of pushback on that, but not enough that, you know, I would wanna change things. So, um, okay. So the freebie is basically. I'm taking all 30 tips, putting them in one place, dividing them up into the different tech traps. Mm-hmm. So it's like a maybe seven page Canva doc. And then I'm not doing video tutorials or anything, but I'm just saying one sentence and then saying, here's how, and then it links to the Google page that explains how to do it.

Em 16:36

Got it.

Amanda 16:37

And then obviously it'll have an upsell to the course and things like that.

Em 16:40

Yeah. That's pretty valuable All right. Let's talk about the technical part of this. Were you creating these day by day? Did you batch them?

Amanda 16:47

No, I only batched the last three days. Okay. Um, but I was doing them every single day. I wish I had batched more. Um, but no, I was just gonna drink

Em 16:56

Yeah.

Amanda 16:57

Every day.

Em 16:57

And were you doing it in edits inside reels? Cappo?

Amanda 17:01

I was filming it just as a straight video on my iPhone. What was my pressure? The other accountability was that I record in front of my office window and it, so I was gonna lose my natural light at four 30 every day,

Em 17:13

Uhhuh.

Amanda 17:14

So I, that was like what got me into the room. And, I filmed with the iPhone and then I use DS script, which I've become really familiar with because, uh, with my, from my podcast days. Yeah, I love D Script. It's, you could basically edit a video, like a Word document so you can just clip out different pieces because I was always wanting them to be less than three minutes, otherwise yeah, Instagram won't push them out. Um, so I would do DS script then edits. Then Instagram and I would type up all the captions and the onscreen words in Notion. And because em, you know, now that we can copy and paste between our Mac and our phone, I would just copy and paste from Notion to the phone.

Em 17:55

So record straight up in the video of your iPhone?

Amanda 17:59

Yeah.

Em 18:01

Put it into D script.

Amanda 18:03

Yeah.

Em 18:03

To chop it up,

Amanda 18:05

chop it up,

Em 18:06

get it down to three minutes

Amanda 18:07

and add screenshots and things like that.

Em 18:10

Bring it into edits.

Amanda 18:12

Yeah.

Em 18:12

To what? Add captions.

Amanda 18:14

On screen text. Yeah,

Em 18:15

on

Amanda 18:15

screen. And the caption, because I was being superstitious again about

Em 18:20

that. Using edits.

Amanda 18:21

If you use edits, Uhhuh,

Em 18:22

yeah, I'm the same. And then the last step is importing it into Instagram and that's where you add your actual caption.

Amanda 18:30

And I would duplicate each one, um, and do a trial reel. Um, at the same exact time. And those, the first two or three, maybe four or five, I'd have to look at the data trial reels did amazing. Got like, some of them, I think a trial reel alone maybe brought in something like 50,000 followers. But then Instagram just started telling me, we're not gonna share this.'cause it's similar to other content you've shared.

Em 18:57

That's actually I was about to ask'cause that's what I heard.

Amanda 18:59

But now like they'll, they'll push it out to like three people.

Em 19:02

Okay. So that kind of maybe changed at some point early on in your'cause that's what I was about to ask. Somebody told me like, yeah, there's no point to duplicating because now they know and they're gonna stop you. Like, or or just not push it out to anybody.

Amanda 19:15

Yeah,

Em 19:15

that's unfortunate. But

Amanda 19:16

in the beginning it worked, so

Em 19:18

Yeah. You

Amanda 19:18

know, it was worth it doing that. And I mean, you don't have anything to lose by trying it, but

Em 19:22

totally. Totally. Um, what would you say were any like tech hiccups or like learning curves when it comes to showing up, up on video that you had to like overcome? Or were there any,

Amanda 19:37

No, I think getting that little, the little fluffy microphone. I don't have the, the little fluff on it right now. This is Holly land and I really like that one. I think it was maybe 50 or$60 with a little fluffy. I told you, uh, my husband's Latino and he, he's a tech guy too. And we were walking around the, the microphone store and I was like, I need the fluffy. It's fluffy because it's just fun. I love it. It's funny'cause this is supposed to be like to block out wind. I don't care. It's just cute. Cute. I had that. It's so cute. And then I had one of those, um, tripods, but it really helps to have a tripod that has the magnet on it and not that annoying clippy thing. I hate the

Em 20:11

clippy thing.

Amanda 20:12

Yeah. So I just had that on my desk and then I could just smack the little, um, thing on there. And then another thing I kept forgetting to do was wiping my lens. So I started putting the lens cleaner at the top of the jar, on top of the tips so that I had to wipe my lens.

Em 20:28

Love that.

Amanda 20:29

so habit. Habit is a very easy tech. Set up. I think the challenges were just the, my checkout page and, the ManyChat, those things breaking down. So highly recommend that if anybody does have a low ticket offer, make sure that you duplicate your checkout page so that,

Em 20:47

oh,

Amanda 20:47

if something starts breaking you just

Em 20:50

switch the links.

Amanda 20:52

Do a little switch around.

Em 20:53

That's actually genius. I mean, great problem to have.

Amanda 20:57

yeah.

Em 20:57

So what would you say is like the biggest surprise, from doing this series?

Amanda 21:02

Yeah, that was such a good question and it really made me think. I think one of it was, one of them was just the, like, the self-confidence that came from it, of like, oh gosh, people wanna hear from me. People like me, they like my personality. They like. What, how?'cause I'm just showing up as me. Yeah. And I think it also was like I'm on an authority. I'm telling people things that are needed that nobody has told them before. I think also the other big piece that I didn't expect was like the community building aspect of it. I had people from this community, I had people from the Maria community and other communities that I'm in that have really big followings that would check in on me and be like, are you okay? You know, knowing Right? You did MI

Em 21:49

did. Yeah. Because I'm

Amanda 21:50

like, how was your nervous stuff?

Em 21:51

Crazy. Yeah.

Amanda 21:52

It wasn't just like, congrats girl. It was like, how are you doing? Do you need like Instagram therapy right now?

Em 21:58

Yeah.

Amanda 21:58

And um, so people reaching out and just like cheering me on, people would be like, you're at 70 5K. Oh my God, you're, oh my God. Okay. And I think also it really spurred me to like, just share transparently about, instead of me just going onto the thing and be like, I have a win to share. I'm growing. I'm like, duplicate your checkout page. Make sure da, da, da, da. You know? Mm-hmm. I wanted just pass, pay that forward. And I think, um, yeah, I just was kind of surprised that people were. Uh, in the community as well as reaching out were, I felt really excited that I was inspiring people. They, they were like, I've been so nervous to show up. You are inspiring me. And that was really beautiful.

Em 22:38

I mean, it, it happened to me like I'm over here like, oh, I'm a content creator. Let me teach you how to make your content. And I was like, struggling to show up on video because. Just perfectionist, but I'm a perfectionist and I just felt like I had all had to have all the elements be perfect. And then you kind of gave me this permission to like kind of have fun with it and, and just force myself to get on video by pulling ideas from, and I even found, I think I might have sent one to you, like I saw somebody else doing it who's not, you know, not even in our world or anything. And like people were just jumping on the whole mm-hmm. Pulling it from a jar. I mean that, I feel like that went viral in and of itself, like that concept.

Amanda 23:22

Yeah. And I think the other thing that surprised me about myself was that, you know,'cause of course I'm an overnight success that's been doing this for 10 years,

Em 23:30

right?

Amanda 23:31

When I look at that, what's happened now, I'm like, oh my gosh, I was using so much of what I've been taught and not even really thinking about it, but just like. Oh, I'm delaying the, the tip a little bit, and so I'm making you watch past the three second mark so that I get my retention and, oh, this jar is a physical hook and oh, this microphone is a physical hook. And being less than three minutes and having like, I was like, I didn't, I, it's just like, it was like the culmination of like, I'm kind of smart, I'm kind of good. Mm-hmm. You know, like just kind of realizing like, wow, I've, I've col it's over so much trial and error. I'm putting it all together and it's working, you know.

Em 24:17

So that's actually another good point that I was thinking about today before this call was, um, that you were ready for virality, like mm-hmm. And that's something, you had the foundation there. You had the low ticket offer, you've got the email list, like you've got that foundation. And that was something that I also had when I went viral. Like, thank God, I mean, I think I made something like$35,000 that first month that I went viral on$27 thing. Like

Amanda 24:51

Yeah.

Em 24:51

And I just, oh, but it was there and I, and I had it and I had my email list. And like, that was a, I'm not gonna say that was a godsend, because that wasn't, that was something that we took the time to build and make sure was there before going viral, which is huge.

Amanda 25:06

Yeah. Yeah. Because for me it's never been about. The vanity metrics of, like, for me it wasn't, I mean, it was a little bit of like the credibility of wanting to be over 10 K because I wanna be on the Today Show. Yeah. And I want to, you know, get a book deal and, you know, all that kinda stuff. So there is a little bit of that street cred, but for me it's never been about like, wanting to be someone that has, I was trying to get a hundred checkout views a day to my checkout because Yeah, that's what I need to support my family and the type of business that I wanna run, so,

Em 25:35

mm-hmm.

Amanda 25:36

So grateful to have that. And I made similar, I think January I closed out at 32,000, and that's not counting what happened between the 27th and the first, which was probably maybe like 10 k.

Em 25:50

Mm-hmm. It's amazing.

GMT20260204-172924_Recording 25:53

Yeah,

Em 25:53

it's amazing. Actually, just real quick, speaking on, how are you seeing your cart views? Like is that something, is that like a Sam cart thing or like Yeah, I don't know how to, okay, so

Amanda 26:04

yeah. Yeah.

Em 26:05

I don't think I can do that. I'm on flow desk checkouts. Okay. I don't feel like that's, I can do abandoned cart. email series, but I don't see how many, I don't think I do, but I'll have to look into that. That's pretty cool.

Amanda 26:16

Yeah, I think that's what started getting me really inspired is like the math maths. Like

Em 26:21

yeah,

Amanda 26:21

you get a hundred checkout views a day and you get a 2% conversion rate where 2% of the people that view actually buy and you have an average order value of$44, which is about my average order value you're making. And I know the math isn't exact, but you can be making like a hundred dollars a day. Right. A hundred times 30 is$3,000.

Em 26:43

Right.

Amanda 26:44

So it's amazing.

Em 26:44

So

Amanda 26:45

you can be making$3,000 a month

Em 26:48

Yeah.

Amanda 26:48

By just getting a hundred people to your checkout page. And I was get, and then when this happened, I was getting like 3000 people a day to my checkout page.

Em 26:56

I

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bet.

Amanda 26:56

And obviously it's petered off now, but I was like. Oh my God, this works. Like,

Em 27:00

oh my God's working. Yeah.

Amanda 27:01

Yeah.

Em 27:02

Yeah. That's awesome. all right, so wrap it up. Like what would you say to another solopreneur or a woman inside the coven who's on this call, like thinking about doing their own series?

Amanda 27:14

I would say like, be weird. Like let your free flag fly. Like,

Em 27:19

yeah.

Amanda 27:19

Be, just be weird, be you. Like, I feel like my goal has always been like, don't be boring.

Em 27:26

Yeah.

Amanda 27:26

Right. Um, and I think also having a snappy, repetitive intro. I think m you might have even said that, I feel like there was something, I did something.'cause now that Instagram is like a search engine. Having on screen how to make tech easier. Having in my bio and saying out loud, I am a tech and productivity coach, I have a little head or footer at the bottom. I am blah, blah, blah. Mm-hmm. So I think I did something. So I think just being very, very clear, I think we kind of, with hooks, they got us into the trap of like, these five things are gonna change your life. Yeah. But like Instagram doesn't know what to do with that.

Speaker 4 28:11

Yeah.

Amanda 28:11

So I would say that be weird and then have your snappy, repetitive intro, because not everybody's gonna catch you on day one. Yeah. And that's gonna help the searchability of your content.

Em 28:24

Yeah. You really stuck through, I mean, you stuck with it what? You ended yesterday, right? Yesterday or today, yeah. Was your 30th day

Amanda 28:30

yesterday? Yeah.

Em 28:32

You're gonna go and start another one?

Amanda 28:34

I am. It's gonna be all about the year of the snake and shedding, because the year of the snake ends February 16th and Fire Horse starts on the 17th. So this is probably gonna be maybe like a 10 day series all about shedding, but I'm trying to think about is it still the jar? Is it something different? Is it,

Em 28:50

yeah.

Amanda 28:51

Still thinking about

Em 28:51

that. Interesting. I love it. Well thank you so much for coming and sharing all this. I really do appreciate it. And you also even hopped into the coven and did like a whole like roundup of like what, what's working, what's not, what to try. And I just, I appreciate that so much.

Amanda 29:08

Yeah. Well, I mean, being a part of the coven was huge during this process because I just had your friendship and leadership M during the process and like I said, so many different people reaching out and I couldn't imagine like going through this and not being part of the community'cause it just felt like such a close knit group of people that were cheering me on. So thank you for all that you've done to make it such a great place.

Em 29:27

Oh my gosh, of course. I love that. Oh my gosh. Okay. That's good. That's perfect. Thank you. That's the, that's the podcast. The podcast is over everybody.