Gone Viral: Behind the Scenes of Alanna's Instagram Reel Success

Note: As of posting this episode, Alanna's reel has had over one million views and gained 20,000 new followers.

Ever wonder how some social media posts skyrocket to viral status while others barely make a ripple? 

That's the question in this episode, using Alanna's recent Instagram reel success as our case study. 

From the strength of her hook to the alignment of her title, we unpack the elements that made her content explode in popularity. 

We explore the key ingredients that often lead to online sensation. Drawing wisdom from consistency and quality, we discuss the significance of finding your niche and bringing your A-game every time you post. 

We borrow a leaf from Alex Hormozi's book, underlining the importance of perseverance and the joy of gradual growth. Remember, before going viral, you need a solid foundation on your social media platforms.

Transcript

Going Viral

Speaker 1 0:00

So I went viral in the last seven days since we recorded this podcast.

Speaker 2 0:07

Viral. Oh, my goodness, are you okay? Yeah, I'm fine, is there? Are you on a prescription or?

Speaker 1 0:14

No, I'm fine, but I went viral on Instagram.

Speaker 2 0:17

Oh on Instagram on the internet.

Speaker 1 0:20

You're a viral sensation Okay. Yeah, we are a couple of years late. I mean, you know these different meanings. Now Right, I forgot.

Speaker 2 0:29

Yeah, yeah. Congratulations jokes aside, let's look at the numbers as we're recording, because they're quite phenomenal.

Speaker 1 0:41

Yeah, and moving pretty quick too.

Speaker 2 0:43

Yeah, presently you're at 14,500 followers up from where were you a week ago?

Speaker 1 0:51

4,044.

Speaker 2 0:53

Yeah, yeah, so you've tripled in followers, gaining 10,000 followers in a week, 100% organically. Yeah, because you created this lovely reel titled Release Frustration in 60 Seconds and wow, is it getting a lot of views quickly. So, like, I checked the view count a couple of minutes ago and it was 555,000 views, remember it?

Speaker 1 1:18

Right. Yeah, I said it to you and it was like, oh, 555k right.

Speaker 2 1:21

Yeah, so 555,9k, meaning 4,000 more views in the last like five minutes. Yeah, so it seems like and you were saying this to me before we even hit record it seems like not only has it gone viral, but the momentum is still building, it's building.

Speaker 1 1:40

Yeah, so I think I hit 10k followers on Monday and at that point I was trending 70 followers per hour, gaining 70 followers per hour, and since I've hit 10k it's gone up to, I think. Tuesday I was trending 80 followers per hour and then by the end of the day yesterday I was trending 100 new followers an hour.

Speaker 2 2:08

Wow, yeah, really. So it's just compounding, right it's. Yeah.

Speaker 1 2:16

I've been waiting for it to just peter out and stop yeah. Not yet Cross our fingers million views maybe that could be cool.

Speaker 2 2:27

That would be cool. Okay, so that's what this episode's about. Everybody, alana Banks has gone viral in the best internet growth way possible. Yeah, she made a piece of organic content. It's exploded in popularity. It's getting all kinds of positive attention and new followers. It's just really cool to see, like holy jumping. Think about it, like probably, before this is all said and done, a million people will have seen your 90-second video. Yeah, at least.

Speaker 1 2:59

Yeah, which is total. I'm still in complete shock because I wasn't expecting this. I've been hosting content for 10 years from a business perspective, right, like I think I've been on Instagram since 2007, but 10 years ago I started posting strictly for business, and so on last Tuesday I posted that reel, like I would post any reel on any day of the week, not expecting much, right, I just was expecting that I would post it and get my regular views, and then it just went crazy. So I guess what we're going to talk about I don't know where I was going with that, so today I had a grain of thought.

Speaker 2 3:51

All that said, today we'll talk about why we think this piece of content went viral, so that maybe our audience can do the same thing.

Speaker 1 4:00

Totally yeah. Yeah, because I don't know if there, I don't think that there's a blueprint is what I want to say. I don't think there's a blueprint for going viral, and that's what we're going to talk about too. It's like there was a lot of things working in my favor and then it was like a perfect storm of a bunch of things. I think that took it to the next level, potentially.

Speaker 2 4:25

Yeah, For sure. By the way, for those of you that want to check it out, check out Alana Banks on Instagram. Alana Banks Coaching is the user name. If you go to her Reels there, you'll see that one of them.

Speaker 1 4:41

It's pinned. It's the first pinned.

Speaker 2 4:43

Yeah, it's the first pinned Reel. If you're looking at it on your phone in the app, it'll be the first pinned Reel. If you're looking at it on the website, it'll be the seventh or eighth or ninth or later Reel, depending on when you watch this, because when you pin it on it it only pins it in the app. It doesn't pin it on the app. They look at it on the website. Oh yeah, anyways, but just look for the one that has a really high number of views.

Speaker 1 5:08

You'll notice it yeah.

Speaker 2 5:10

Okay, what do you think it was about this piece of content that made it so popular? Why don't you describe the content Like what is it? It's a Reel, it's 90 seconds, but what are you?

Speaker 1 5:21

doing. Yeah, it's a 90-second Reel where I teach an NLP technique and basically what it is is how to release frustration in less than 60 seconds. That's what I teach in it. It's me speaking to the camera, me speaking to the audience, one-on-one, and I'm basically guiding them through a technique to release frustration. So one of the reasons why I think it got a quick uptick is I gave them, I told them what was gonna happen in like the first three seconds of the video.

Speaker 1 5:58

And I told them that it was gonna happen in less than 60 seconds. So it kind of like set up this expectation that like here's what I'm gonna teach you. It's something tangible that you're gonna be able to walk away with and I'm gonna do it in less than 60 seconds. So I think that was like a good hook. And another thing that I've learned recently is that if your title matches what you say in your video within the first like few seconds, instagram really likes that. So like the title slide, basically that I had, as, like, my cover matched exactly what I said in the first three seconds of that video.

Speaker 2 6:41

Cool. So to boil that down a little bit, she had a good hook everybody. There's a good hook in her video, and then she fulfills the promise that the hook makes. To describe this in a slightly more technical terms, the both the title and the hook of her video are release frustration in 60 seconds. That's the hook. So anybody who wants to learn how to release frustration in 60 seconds, which apparently is a lot of people Chang.

Speaker 1 7:12

yes.

Speaker 2 7:13

We'll continue to watch after they hear that hook. And here's the important thing and Alana said it as well she gives the hook, she says it out loud I'm gonna show you, or tell you, or whatever, how to release frustration in 60 seconds. And then she immediately goes into explaining how to do it. Right, so think about what's happening in the audience's mind. They hear this hook. Oh, that is something that I want. She starts talking and, unlike most people on the internet, she's actually talking about the thing she promised to talk about, right? Yeah, think about the times when, like, you've started watching a piece of content because it was like here's how to make a million dollars in one day, and then, like you know, you can start watching the video and the person's like, okay, I'm gonna tell you how to make a million dollars in one day, but just so you know, here's a whole bunch of reasons why you can't do this.

Speaker 2 8:02

Okay, now let's talk about why I made a million dollars. Like, have you ever seen one of those videos? Yeah, there's one this is big promise and then it's like you start watching and it's like, okay, clearly this is not something I'm gonna be able to apply myself.

Speaker 1 8:15

Yeah.

Speaker 2 8:16

And yours is that. Yours is the opposite. It's like big promise and then it's like hold on this lady's saying something that I think I can probably apply myself right. Of course they're gonna keep watching, right.

Speaker 1 8:27

Yeah, and then that leads into the next point, which is they got an immediate result. So you know, I lead them through this process where I'm like close your eyes, think about, like, think about where the frustration is, think about a shape and spin it, and below I do all this stuff. So if they followed along, they achieved the result that I promised too. So it's like I not only am promising something and then following through with it, but if they follow the instructions, they are rewarded.

Speaker 2 9:02

Yeah With, that's, really important.

Speaker 1 9:04

Like having a visceral reaction and achieving the result that I promised. So it immediately gave me authority and credibility.

Speaker 2 9:15

Yeah, and likewise, here's another kind of rule of content If you have a piece of short content that helps people get a result, it should help them get the result in a short amount of time, right? If you teach somebody how to do something and after you teaching it they're gonna go have to spend days or weeks to get the result, they're not gonna get the result and they're not gonna attach value to the, to your little video. So another thing that worked in the Lana's favor, in my opinion and in my experience, is that she had that hook where she promised a really good juicy result. She delivered on exactly how to achieve that result and it was something that the person could literally start doing during the video and, if not, within a few seconds after the video was done, they could be like, okay, put their phone down and try it and experience what Elena just described for this immediate payoff which makes them want to do what, ladies and gentlemen, in the invisible audience that doesn't exist. Share the content.

Speaker 1 10:14

Yeah, right, yeah. And then, immediately after that, I said if you want to learn more techniques like this, follow me for more.

Speaker 2 10:24

And so immediately.

Speaker 1 10:25

They then did the call to action, which was follow me, because they were like, they were all in like shock, like oh, wow, this really worked. I want to learn more. What else is she going to teach me? Right? So then they follow me for more. And then another thing, and then in the caption, like you know where you write, you know in the caption, all I wrote was save this for later and, as a result, it's been saved 20,321 times. Wow, yeah.

Speaker 2 10:57

Really cool.

Speaker 1 10:59

They followed my call to both call to actions like follow me for more if you want to learn more and save this for later.

Speaker 2 11:06

Yeah.

Speaker 1 11:07

And then the other thing that you know was really cool too, which I wasn't. I didn't do a call to action, but a lot of people commented just being like, wow, it actually worked. Like that's pretty much like 95% of the comments is like wow, this worked for me. You know, this is so cool. I was really skeptical, but it actually worked. So it's just like I kind of like converted people into believing something that they otherwise may not have believed.

Speaker 2 11:36

Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 11:38

And I've only had maybe like five people send me a mean comment.

Speaker 2 11:43

Yeah.

Speaker 1 11:44

Which I think is kind of nice.

Speaker 2 11:46

That's pretty good.

Speaker 1 11:47

Yeah, Because I was kind of expecting some people to be like oh, it didn't work, Like some people obviously have commented like this doesn't work, this is dumb you know whatever.

Speaker 1 11:57

And I don't engage with them, I just like them. But yeah, I think that really worked. All of that is partly why I also use the trending audio. Now, I always use trending audios in my reels and they never bring me this type of attention, but it could have been part of why it took off as well. And then, like from an aesthetics level, I used your model, which is sort of like close up, good lighting captions. There was really nothing in my background to distract people either. It was really just me. It kind of felt like it was this experience where it was like me, and the audience too.

Speaker 2 12:50

Yeah.

Speaker 1 12:53

So those things were also working in my favor, that it was like aesthetically pleasing, set up well, good lighting.

Speaker 2 13:00

Yeah.

Speaker 1 13:01

Cool, good sound.

Speaker 2 13:04

Good smell.

Speaker 1 13:05

Smells good yeah, smells good yeah tastes great, great taste.

Speaker 2 13:11

Okay, so we kind of broke down some of the things that it really had going for it. Also good thumbnail. Just there's all these elements of the piece of content itself that are technically well done.

Speaker 1 13:26

Yeah, and I don't mean Check the boxes, right.

Speaker 2 13:29

And I don't mean, I mean technically well done in the most literal meaning of the word, technical.

Speaker 1 13:33

I mean from a technical standpoint.

Creating Viral Content on Social Media

Speaker 2 13:35

All of these things that needed to be in place were in place, and that's great right Now, from a contextual standpoint and I mentioned this on one of our group calls recently and there's actually been a few people who are applying this similar style of real that I didn't invent it, but I teach it to my students because it's a really good way to balance what I call wide appeal content and deep appeal content, but we don't need to get into that right now. But there's been a few people from my little corner of the internet who've been following this style of content creation and have gone viral recently. Yourself, you're the most viral. But also there was Maria H, who I think, reached over 100,000 views when she only had 2,000 followers on Instagram at the time. And then there was Lore, who I can't remember how many views, but she had similar results like big time views on one of her reels.

Speaker 2 14:35

And in all three of you the context I think really played into the ability for the individual piece of content to go viral. And what I mean by that, in other words, is if you're not taking care of your account and behaving in a certain way leading up to when you make this really good and juicy piece of content, the platform may not give it the attention that it could otherwise get. So Alana and I kind of brainstormed before we had recorded here mainly she brainstormed, but we kind of brainstormed the five things that I think helped to create the context where when you insert a piece of good quality content, it's much more likely to go viral. Does that lead in? Makes sense to you, alana Banks, the way I said that?

Speaker 1 15:23

Yeah, totally. Yeah it's sort of like you need to have a bit of a foundation to your profile to help you launch into that viral territory.

Speaker 2 15:35

Or yeah, or in other words. I mean like the greatest piece of content you have. One individual great piece of content in the world might go viral when posted on one account and maybe get zero views when posted on a different account. The exact same piece of content that all of the people were.

Speaker 1 15:54

Actually, that came up recently because yesterday I had my Ascension Circle call and Maria is actually in the Ascension Circle and so we were talking about this and we were talking about when she went viral and she's like it's so funny because she posted a similar video to this one and it didn't really take off. And so she was just like it's so interesting that I posted a very similar video to this and it didn't take off. And then you posted, and then you go crazy with 450 or whatever. Yesterday it was 450,000 views.

Speaker 2 16:31

Yeah, because there's also the question of and she's got an account that we know can go viral because she had. But here's the thing with every piece of content we post, we're teaching the algorithm who needs to see our content. So what went viral for you may not go viral for her, and I'm sure if you looked at her most viral reel, that got 100,000 views or whatever it was and replicated it word for word and posted it on your account for your audience. I bet it would not go viral because that's not what your audience is appreciating right now.

Speaker 1 17:05

Right, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 17:06

Okay, let's get into this list. We got five things that Alana and Maria and this other person I mentioned, laura, and all the other people who I've observed have content really explode. These five things are kind of common denominators that these folks are doing in the months or years leading up to having a big explosion and popularity on social media.

Speaker 1 17:27

Yeah Cool.

Speaker 2 17:30

Okay, yes.

Speaker 1 17:31

So number one so I've been grinding out content, posting content every day for 10 years Now. For five of those years I had a fabric store, so I was putting out content that was related to something very different than what I'm posting about now, Right, Like it was about fabric and quilting and being a mom and all that kind of stuff. For the last five years, I've been posting content consistently about hypnosis and coaching and NLP and the mind and all that kind of stuff. But really for the last 10 years, I've just been consistently putting out content every day related to my niche at the time, and even over the last five years, I've gone through a lot of different niches within the hypnosis, NLP, coaching, mindfulness niche.

Speaker 1 18:32

But actually what just came in for me right now is like I really and this takes a lot of resistance into point number two and we can maybe do point one and two together but like I've been really doubling down on reels since September 2022, which is like me on video talking to the camera being visible, Right. So I think part of it and I was like, when I say double down, like I was like putting three pieces of content out a day for a while just to get my stuff out there, Because what happened was, when I shifted from being a fabric store to being into coaching, the algorithm didn't know what the heck was going on, right, Because I was all of a sudden talking about something completely different to a different audience. So it took a while for me to find my footing when I got into the coaching world too.

Speaker 1 19:30

But, I think what really helped amp up the machine was me being very consistent with the content, but also like doubling, tripling down on putting good content out there.

Speaker 2 19:45

Yeah, yeah. So and I don't want to scare people because you said you've been posting content for five or 10 years- by no means is it a requirement for you to post content for five or 10 years before you have good success.

Speaker 2 19:59

The other people who I mentioned you've also gone viral have been posting for significantly less than five or 10 years. The point there is Alana has been consistent and didn't give up and has enjoyed gradual growth punctuated by phases of increased growth. Yeah, right now she's in a phase of extreme growth with this viral content right? I want to share a quote from Alex Hormozzi, the exceedingly polarizing Alex. I don't know how this guy became polarizing because he's so positive and his advice is so good and so genuine and he's like catching. I'm sure he doesn't care a lick, but you know, and a lot of it's people just trying to make themselves relevant. But some of the criticisms I've seen of Alex Hormozzi, I'm just like, okay, well, maybe try his stuff before you say it's.

Speaker 2 20:56

Here's a quote from him that reminds me of what you're talking about and reminds me of social media. The quote is about business in general. He says there are two outcomes. Once you get into business, it eventually works is number one or number two is you give up before it works? He says that's it, and it's the same thing with social media growth. There are two outcomes. Once you get serious about marketing yourself on social media, it eventually works, or you give up before it does and that's it Right.

Curiosity and Experimentation in Social Media

Speaker 1 21:27

And so funny you mentioned that? Because the day before, like on the Monday of last week, I thought to myself you know what? I'm just going to start a whole new Instagram account, because I was like oh man, what a mistake that would have been.

Speaker 1 21:45

Right.

Speaker 1 21:47

But I was thinking, you know, because my growth has been okay, but my growth really came from my fabric store days and then when I shut down my crap, like when I sold my fabric store and transferred everything to coaching, I lost about 2,000 followers and I haven't been able to recoup those followers over the last five years.

Speaker 1 22:11

And so you know, of course, then you start blaming the algorithm and you start blaming you know the fact that, like, people aren't seeing my content, and you know I was kind of in the spiral of just like I'm just going to burn it all down and start from scratch, start like giving new stuff to the algorithm.

Speaker 1 22:31

And I've had those thoughts many times, right, not just last Monday, but I don't know, the universe must have heard me loud and clear to be like no, don't shut it down, we'll just make you go viral. I said yeah, but it's true, it does get to the point where you're like ugh, I just want to give up, or like why isn't this working? Or you know, and the other thing and maybe this is like a topic for another episode. But just because I went viral doesn't mean I'm all of a sudden like this super successful coach making like way more money in the last seven days, either right, it's just put me in front of more eyeballs and it's going to give me more opportunity to continue to do what I've been doing, which is share my message and put myself out there and create things. So it's kind of like I went viral, but so what you know?

Speaker 2 23:29

Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 23:30

Nothing changed, other than, like every time I open my phone, I have a hundred new followers and hearts and comments, and you know.

Speaker 2 23:39

And people showering you with compliments.

Speaker 1 23:42

Yeah. Anyways okay, what's next on the list?

Speaker 2 23:45

The next one is Is getting the contacts where we can go viral.

Speaker 1 23:49

The next one. Well, I've been following your model that you teach in the Simple Social Sanctuary.

Speaker 2 23:54

Yeah, yeah, really you have. And the model that I teach in the Simple Social Sanctuary is you know, I try to think of the most core foundational principles of being successful on social media, you know, and obviously the consistency is one of them, but that's hyper vague, right, but it really is. You know, every bit as important as consistency is efficiency, and I can tell, looking at somebody's profile, whether they're spending a ton of their time and energy to create content or whether they're creating good content, but it's being made efficiently and if it's not being made efficiently, it's almost never sustainable. You'll also, you'll almost never have the consistency to create the context that Atlanta created where you can go viral. So I think one of the things you're really good at Atlanta Banks is the efficient use of social media, in parallel to consistent use, which is one of the things that I really emphasize in the Simple Social Sanctuary.

Speaker 1 24:58

Yeah, and that's super important too, because it's not sustainable when, if you're spending like hours creating content right and I've always kind of held that belief too Maybe not so much with the video content, but definitely with my written content Like I've always just kind of slapped together or something and thrown it up there. But definitely learning from you kind of like your tips and tricks around creating video content efficiently has been really helpful. And so for this one, for example, right Like I recorded it down here in my basement, like where I have my lights and everything set up, and I basically take one take, I film it in stories, download the stories and then I upload it into the captions app that I use and then I'm done. So it's that reel. Probably took me maybe 20 minutes from start to finish, and then I went and I think I had lunch, and then it was like after I had lunch I opened my phone and I was like, oh my God, what happened?

Speaker 1 26:07

Because, it took off like immediately.

Speaker 2 26:10

Yeah, yeah, I love that and it kind of proves the point that, like you, don't have to have spent hours creating one reel for it to be really effective right.

Speaker 1 26:23

Like what I did was because I just finished my master NLP training. So I just opened up my textbook and I was like, oh, maybe I'll do a reel where I'm teaching this. That could be fun. And so I just did that, like I didn't even pre-plan it, think about it, write a script, do my hair, do my makeup, like nothing like that. I just kind of plopped down at my desk and recorded it.

Speaker 1 26:51

So, and the other thing that you teach to is also like having like a close-up video, making sure that you have captions, making sure that the lighting is good, right, like that. There's contrast. So that was all there. But like those are kind of things I just do on autopilot now, like it's, I don't set it up that way. It's just kind of like that's how I record my content. One thing that I did that was a little bit different, though, was I zoomed in more, so like when I recorded I was a little bit more far away, but then when I uploaded it as a real and edited it, I like I zoomed in closer than I normally would have.

Speaker 2 27:37

Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 27:39

So that was kind of a new little trick that I did.

Speaker 2 27:42

New little thing I mean that's we wanna avoid the term would be survivorship bias, where we assume that that contributed to the success of real. It may have, but it may actually be that the real was successful, despite being zoomed in a lot. We don't know for sure. No, I do think maybe it worked in your favor, but I would stop short of being everybody make reals, because it also had the effect of slightly lowering the resolution of your real when you did that.

Speaker 2 28:25

It wasn't a problem whatsoever in this case, because obviously it's. But what I'm saying is had you not done that, you'd be at 10 million views now. I know. No, I'm just kidding, we have no idea.

Speaker 1 28:35

We have no idea.

Speaker 2 28:36

Yeah.

Speaker 1 28:37

Well, that's what I was saying before. It's like a perfect storm. There's no blueprint, really, it's just a perfect storm of checking all the technical boxes.

Speaker 2 28:50

Have you seen this? Or there's this trend where people will create a real on Instagram and they'll be holding something as if it's a microphone, but if you look carefully, it's like the wrong end of a charging cable or it's a microphone that's not plugged into anything.

Speaker 1 29:05

Yeah.

Speaker 2 29:05

And this trend started because somebody did this. Somebody made a reel where they were doing this pretending to hold a microphone, but it was an iPhone cable and it was really successful. And then other people started doing it and even now we have no way of knowing if the reel was successful, because the person was holding a wire and pretending it was a microphone.

Speaker 1 29:28

Yeah.

Speaker 2 29:29

Or it was just successful, despite the fact that they're doing something silly, and I think there's a lot of that in social media, where it's like one or a few people do this thing and it happens to be in a popular piece of content and people go and assume oh well, then you know, having a chapstick to glue it to my forehead in my reel will make it successful, so I should do that too.

Speaker 1 29:59

Yeah.

Speaker 2 30:00

Yeah.

Speaker 1 30:01

Well, I think that's. I'm not saying that stuff doesn't work.

Speaker 2 30:03

Maybe there is some scientific reason. You know Totally.

Speaker 1 30:08

And it does work. But I think what I've been really picking up on a lot lately and this has always been my thing, and this actually brings us into point number five, so we'll turn point five into point four but is maintaining an attitude of curiosity and experimentation. So don't necessarily Like what I've been listening to a lot lately and what I've always believed is like don't copy other people, create your own stuff, you know. Like, be unique, like, do what you want to do, because that's going to work in your favor, because it's going to be different. If you're just copying everyone and doing the trends and doing the dances, I mean that trend is kind of over now, but do your content the way you want to do your content.

Speaker 2 30:52

Yeah.

Speaker 1 30:54

Check some of those technical boxes Right. So you know like I've been following Ryan's blueprint in terms of, like, how to create video content and I think that it's really helpful and it looks good and it resonates, but then I'm still creating my own content within that box. You know what I mean. I think that that's really important is just to have curiosity, experiment, and I've always done this, like even back when I had my fabric store and when I transitioned from my fabric store to what I'm doing now. I've never been interested in copying what everybody else is doing, and that's going to work in your favor.

Speaker 2 31:38

Yeah, I agree. All right, yeah, I can't say it any better than that what's the? What number are we on On the list?

Speaker 1 31:45

That was four, so now five is. Oh, no, that was three, that was point three.

Speaker 2 31:53

Cool.

Building a Positive Online Persona

Speaker 1 31:55

The other one is be a good social media citizen. So point four is be a good social media citizen. Yeah, which really is. I've always adopted this where it's just like. I comment on people's things, I like people's stuff, I am friendly when people comment on my stuff. I respond when people direct message me. I respond when people share my stuff. I thank them for doing that.

Speaker 1 32:25

I cruise around social media with an attitude of gratitude, right, and even as I was climbing in these numbers, I was going on my stories being like oh my gosh, I'm so grateful that all these people are following me. Like, send me a message if you're new and tell me where you're from. So that also created opportunity for a lot of new people to message me. And then I found out there was people from all over the world, like India and Scotland and Germany and the States, like everywhere, and it just creates conversation. So it's just like. And another thing that I made a point of, too, is I never leave a bad comment on anything. I never get in fights in the comment section. I never make a mean comment on someone's post if I don't agree with them or something like that. You know what I mean. Like, so I have a pretty squeaky clean persona, yeah, on the internet as well.

Speaker 2 33:27

Yeah.

Speaker 1 33:29

Which I think helps. And even with the comments that were coming in from my reel, you know like 95% of them have been very positive and I responded to every single one that's come in, and even the ones that were kind of mean, I didn't delete them, I just hearted them and that was it. Like I was like I'm not engaging with this person, it's like I don't really care too.

Speaker 2 33:55

Yeah.

Speaker 1 33:57

I don't want to fight in my own comment section, so, and I don't let it get to me either, because I really don't care, yeah, and then. Well then, the last one is just having a positive attitude, which I think kind of goes in with good social media citizen.

Speaker 2 34:14

Yeah.

Speaker 1 34:15

Good, that's it that was the foundation that I like, that I built it on.

Speaker 2 34:21

Yeah, and there you go.

Speaker 1 34:25

And now I guess we just see what happens from here. I have no idea. Let me open up and see what's happened since we've been chatting.

Speaker 2 34:32

Yeah.

Speaker 1 34:34

Well, I'm at 14.6 thousand followers now.

Speaker 2 34:37

Nice, so another 200 since we started talking.

Speaker 1 34:43

And then I'm at 565,000 views.

Speaker 2 34:47

Wow, so it's had 10,000 views since, literally since we started chatting.

Speaker 1 34:52

Oh, right yeah.

Speaker 2 34:54

Yeah, really cool.

Speaker 1 34:58

And actually the one I posted yesterday is doing very well the how to get rid of a headache in less than two minutes oh I mean it's a lot better. It's performing very well. That has 11.5 thousand views and I just posted it yesterday around this time.

Speaker 2 35:15

Yeah, you know, it's a fun byproduct of learning those like learning those hypnotic self techniques, together with headaches, after I learned that I could do that and the one that, like, we focused on when I was going through and doing all my training and everything was the location isolation technique Get rid of a headache Once I had learned how to do that.

Speaker 2 35:40

it was like my mind realized that, oh well, if I create a headache, it's just going to be removed through this hypnotic technique. And so now I don't get like I can't remember the last time I had a headache, or it's like my subconscious mind is going and just doing the technique in advance, or something. But it's like you know, I always use this expression the more you do it, the less you need to do it.

Speaker 1 36:05

Yeah, so it's like those techniques.

Speaker 2 36:07

You do them a few times and then it's like not only did it work that time, it like inoculates you against the thing moving forward.

Speaker 1 36:17

Yeah.

Speaker 2 36:18

In other words, go watch Atlanta's new read all every day.

Speaker 1 36:20

Yeah, go watch it and the woman actually commented, saying that she gets chronic headaches and she did the technique that I taught yesterday and she felt her headache melt away. Wow yeah, wanted to know if I had like more information to provide for her.

Speaker 2 36:37

So the headache's gone, Adam, what else do you want? I know?

Speaker 1 36:40

but I guess she's worrying like is it going to what happens if it comes back? Well, just do the technique.

Speaker 2 36:46

Yeah Cool, all right, so there we go. There's all our tips. Go out there, go viral, do stuff, have fun. Yeah Cool. Alana talked a lot about the Simple Social Sanctuary today. If you want to join, just go to RyanMontezcom. You'll see a button that says Simple Social Sanctuary. You can learn all about it and sign up. Or should be a message on Instagram at RyanMonteznlp, the world famous Alana Banks how can people get in touch with you or what are you offering these days?

Virtual Palm Reading

Speaker 1 37:16

Well, just come over to my profile and follow me at Alana Banks Coaching. Also, follow the podcast Instagram, which is it's the no Excuses Coaching Podcast. No, it's the no Excuses Podcast, I think it's called. And then, what am I offering? Well, what I'm offering right now are palm readings, which is also a really great gift for a friend or a family member for the holidays. I do all my palm readings virtually, so I can do it from anywhere in the world, and you just send me photos of your hands, I give you instructions about how you can do that, and then I share my screen with you and walk you through your palms. So it's a great gift. It's $88 for a reading and you can find a link to that by going to my Instagram link tree. You'll see it.

Speaker 2 38:13

Cool, there we go, done.

Speaker 1 38:15

Boom, all right. Thanks everyone, bye everyone.

Speaker 2 38:19

Bye everyone.