24:28Maria Wendt · Tutorial
How To Make $100 A Day With A $7 Product
A four-step breakdown of turning a $7 digital product into a $100-a-day income floor with upsells and daily Instagram Reels.
March 13th 2025The argument in one line.
A creator can turn a three-minute, no-frills Instagram Reel into meaningful revenue by keeping the edit ruthlessly simple and using every reel as free traffic into a bio-link funnel that sells digital products.
Read if. Skip if.
READ IF YOU ARE…
- A creator or coach who freezes up over reel editing and needs permission to keep it rough and fast.
- Someone who already has, or wants, a digital product and needs a repeatable, low-effort way to drive traffic to it.
SKIP IF…
- You're looking for advanced editing techniques, transitions, or high-production reel tutorials — this is deliberately bare-bones.
- You don't have or want to sell a digital product — the back half of the video is a funnel pitch, not general growth advice.
The full version, fast.
The creator argues that reels don't need to be polished to work — hers take about three minutes to make and follow a repeatable eight-step process: pick raw phone footage, trim it to 4-6 seconds, apply a filter, choose trending audio, then layer a hook line plus two tip captions timed to roughly a third of the clip each. She publishes on a fixed daily schedule rather than chasing virality, favoring a high volume of unremarkable reels over a few viral ones. The real payoff isn't the reel itself: it drives free traffic to her Instagram bio link, which routes to a checkout page selling digital courses — the mechanism she credits for the six-figure revenue screenshot shown at the open.
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00:00 – 00:56
01 · Intro & hook
Revenue dashboard screenshot on screen, states the 'keep it quick and easy' thesis, shows her Instagram profile and posting volume.
00:56 – 01:19
02 · Step 1: choose video
Picks raw, unstaged phone footage and trims it down to roughly 4-6 seconds.
01:19 – 01:32
03 · Step 2: choose filter
Applies one of a small rotation of go-to filters (tan, orange, teal).
01:32 – 01:50
04 · Step 3: choose audio
Picks a track from Instagram's audio picker using the trending upward-arrow indicator.
01:50 – 02:13
05 · Step 4: create hook
Adds an on-screen hook text card ('here are 2 tips to XYZ') on a white background for readability.
02:13 – 02:37
06 · Step 5: add text
Types out both tip captions in full before worrying about where they'll sit on the timeline.
02:37 – 02:55
07 · Step 6: arrange text
Places each caption card to occupy roughly a third of the clip's runtime, then previews.
02:55 – 03:30
08 · Step 7: add caption & publish
Saves to drafts, writes the post caption, adds a location tag (skips topic tags), and explains she publishes on a fixed 7am daily schedule. States the whole edit took 3:23.
03:30 – 05:18
09 · Step 8: monetization pitch
Explains the funnel — reels drive free traffic to her bio link, which routes to a checkout page selling digital courses — shows the revenue dashboard again, then pitches the Passive Income With Instagram course and the '24 Courses for $24' bundle before signing off.
Lines worth screenshotting.
- The tutorial's central claim: reels don't need to go viral to work — posting a high volume of quick, unremarkable reels every day beats a few polished, viral ones.
- The entire reel — filming, editing, captioning, and publishing — is timed at 3 minutes 23 seconds in the video.
- Text overlays are timed by rough estimation, not precision: each caption gets roughly a third of the clip's length.
- Trending audio is picked using Instagram's own signal — songs marked with an upward-arrow icon in the audio picker.
- The creator skips Instagram's topic tags entirely, saying she doesn't believe they affect reach, but still adds a location tag.
- Reels are drafted when finished but published on a fixed daily schedule (7am), decoupling editing time from publish time.
- The stated business model: reels create free traffic, traffic flows to a single Instagram bio link, and the bio link routes to a checkout page selling digital products.
- A dashboard screenshot shown on screen displays $394,711.00 in tracked revenue, framed as proof the low-effort reel method converts.
- The product being sold is a bundle of 24 business courses for $24, positioned as a low-ticket entry point beneath the full course.
- You don't have to put your face in the content itself to run this model, per the creator's own comment.
Volume and simplicity beat polish for reels
WHAT TO LEARN
The video argues that a repeatable, unglamorous editing process posted daily converts better long-term than chasing a single viral hit, provided every reel points somewhere that makes money.
01Intro & hook
- Leading with a concrete revenue number, not a vague claim, is what makes a 'trust me, this works' tutorial credible.
- Explicitly lowering the skill bar ('I'm not that smart, I'm not that good at this') removes the excuse a viewer would use to not try the method.
02Step 1: choose video
- Raw, unstaged phone footage (no makeup, no shoes, filmed in seconds) is treated as usable footage, not a mistake to fix.
- Clips are trimmed down to 4-6 seconds — short enough that editing time stays low regardless of the source footage.
03Step 2: choose filter
- A small, repeatable filter rotation removes a decision point that would otherwise slow down daily posting.
04Step 3: choose audio
- Picking audio by a platform-provided trending signal turns a subjective choice into a fast, low-thought pick.
05Step 4: create hook
- The hook is a single on-screen line stating the content directly ('here are 2 tips to X') rather than a cinematic cold open — clarity over cleverness.
- A white text background is used deliberately for readability, not aesthetics.
06Step 5: add text
- All caption text is typed out in full before worrying about placement or timing — separating writing from layout speeds up editing.
07Step 6: arrange text
- Caption timing is approximated (each card gets about a third of the runtime) rather than frame-precisely synced — 'good enough' timing is treated as sufficient.
08Step 7: add caption & publish
- Location tags are added but topic tags are skipped, based on the creator's belief that only one of the two metadata fields affects distribution.
- Reels are drafted when finished but published on a fixed daily schedule — decoupling 'when I finish editing' from 'when it goes live' keeps the queue full without late-night posting.
09Step 8: monetization pitch
- The funnel logic stated on screen: reels create free traffic, which flows to a single bio link, which routes to a checkout page selling digital products.
- A revenue dashboard is used as proof-of-mechanism, not just a vanity screenshot — it's tied directly back to the reel-to-bio-link claim.
- The lower-ticket bundle offer is pitched as a low-risk way to sample the larger paid course library.
Terms worth knowing.
- Bio link
- A single clickable link in an Instagram profile's bio that routes all traffic — regardless of which post drove it — to one destination, usually a sales or opt-in page.
- Trending audio indicator
- An upward-arrow icon Instagram shows next to certain songs in its audio picker, signaling the track is currently gaining usage and reach on the platform.
- Draft-and-schedule posting
- Finishing a piece of content ahead of time and saving it as a draft, then publishing it later at a fixed time rather than immediately after editing.
Things they pointed at.
04:32product24 Courses for $24 bundle
Lines you could clip.
00:23
“I am not that good at this stuff. I am not that smart.”
04:12
“I have a link in my bio, and all my students do. And that link is how we make money right there.”
05:16
“I am a single mama. I don't have a ton of time, and so it's really important for me to be able to make those reels really, really quickly.”
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00:00Okay. So I'm gonna give you my quick and easy reels tutorial. I make a lot of money from Instagram.
00:04I make reels every single day. You can see here the number on the screen is what I made last month. A huge part of that was Instagram reels, but my rule of thumb is it has to be quick and easy.
00:14I'm not making complicated reels. I'm not making reels that take a super long time to make. I am making reels that are quick and easy, and I'm gonna show you how to do it in this tutorial.
00:23Super easy. You can follow along. I am not that good at this stuff.
00:27I am not that smart. I'm just gonna switch it to my iPhone. Here we go.
00:31I'm not that great at this stuff, but I just wanna kinda show you what I do, frankly, so you can see how easy this is, how quick this is, and how possible it is for you too. So this is me.
00:41This is my account. Like I said, I make reels every day. You can see none of my reels, like, go that viral.
00:46I just make a lot of them. I make reels every day, and the way I make reels every day, and the way it's possible is because I keep it quick and easy. So you're gonna click the plus sign.
00:56You're gonna switch it to reels. You're gonna choose your video. So just there you go.
01:01I trim it. I usually do anywhere from, like, six to four seconds. So you can see in this one, I mean, literally, I have the greasiest hair.
01:09I'm not really wearing any makeup. I'm literally not wearing shoes. Like, I'm not this is just a quick one.
01:14It took me about two seconds to get this video footage. Then I'm gonna choose a filter. I film this with my iPhone just so you know, like, it's my iPhone, nothing fancy, nothing special.
01:25And then so I'm really liking the, um, tan and orange and teal filters right now, but you can just pick whichever one you want. Then I'm gonna choose my audio. I literally just choose one of the audios that has the, like, um, upward arrow.
01:38So I don't know if you can see, but you can see, like, the little upward arrow. So I literally just pick one of these. I'll just do that one.
01:45Um, you probably won't hear the audio because it's not my iPhone audio isn't hooked up to this, but that's okay. And then I'm going to, um, create my hook. If you wanna keep it really, really simple, just give tips.
01:56So here are two tips to I'm just gonna say x y z thing.
02:01Right? Like, maybe travel with a toddler or something. I usually make it have the white background because I think it's a little bit more readable, and then what I do to make it go faster is I type all the tips first.
02:14So do this, do this, and then I kinda play where I want, like, put them where I want at the end.
02:24So tip two, also do this, and then I do that.
02:31This is literally how I edit my reels every day. Okay. So then I just drag it, kinda like approximate that each text is gonna take up a third of the time, and then I click next and I click preview.
02:46So I have my hook, my tip one, and my tip two. Then what you would do is, um, go back to your drafts.
02:54You would write your caption here, and then I always choose my location.
03:03I I get asked this a lot. I don't worry about topics. I don't think it does anything.
03:07I know some people really like them, but for me, I don't feel like the topics do anything. Um, so I write my caption, preview it one last time to make sure I like the caption hook, and then I publish Reels every day at 7AM, and so the next morning, I would publish it.
03:21That is literally it. And I can see via recording, it took me three minutes and twenty three seconds to do that including the intro.
03:28In case you're wondering how I make money with Instagram, I am happy to show you that. Let me add my face on here.
03:34We'll make it small so it's not so not so silly.
03:40Woah. It's still kinda silly. Okay.
03:42Perfect. So I have this course called passive income with Instagram, and, basically, the the overview of it you can see here, this is my dashboard, but let me go over here. The overview of this course is we make reels.
03:54Reels create traffic. Traffic goes to our checkout pages which make us money. So we make money from Instagram reels because those Instagram reels create a ton of free traffic back to our Instagram bio.
04:05So if you look at my Instagram bio, you can see here that I have, like, a link in my bio, and all my students do.
04:15And that link is how we make money right there. And so that's what I teach my students how to do. I have a course that kind of explains that we sell digital products that we create or that other people create.
04:24It's kinda up to you. But either way, we sell digital products like courses or ebooks or audio files. Um, you don't have to put your face in it if you don't want to, um, but that's how the money side of things.
04:34So like I said, that screenshot that I showed of me making $400,000, it's because I create like, I have a ton of courses. Um, you may have seen my 24 courses for $24 bundle, um, that I do where I just sell 24 business courses for $24.
04:49I can link to that down in the description as well if you wanna check that out. Either way, that's how I make money on Instagram is with selling digital courses and then using reels to make the free traffic, but I am a single mama. I don't have a ton of time, and so it's really important for me to be able to make those reels really, really quickly, really, really easily, That's where my quick and easy reel tutorial came in.
05:09I'm gonna be making a lot more content on Instagram reels and making money on Instagram, so be sure to subscribe so you don't miss any of it. I will see you in the next video.
The Hook
The bait, then the rug-pull.
She opens with a revenue dashboard flashed on screen and a promise: the reels that make her the most money are the ones she barely thinks about — and she's about to show the whole three-minute process, then the funnel it feeds.
Named ideas worth stealing.
00:00list
Quick & Easy Reel Method
- Choose video
- Choose filter
- Choose audio
- Create hook
- Add text
- Arrange text
- Add caption
- Publish on schedule
The creator's named 8-step process for producing a reel in about 3 minutes, used daily.
Steal forany creator posting daily short-form content without a dedicated editor
03:55model
Reels-to-revenue funnel
- Reels create free traffic
- Traffic goes to the Instagram bio link
- Bio link routes to a checkout page
- Checkout page sells digital products
The stated mechanism connecting reel volume to the revenue shown on the dashboard screenshot.
Steal forany info-product or digital-download business using organic short-form as the top of funnel
How they asked for the click.
VERBAL ASK
03:30product
“I have this course called passive income with Instagram”
Soft pitch woven into the value content rather than bolted on — she frames the course as 'here's how the money side actually works' before naming the product, then adds a cheaper bundle offer as a lower-friction entry point, closing with a subscribe ask.
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FROM THE DESCRIPTION
PRIMARY CTAWhere the creator wants you to go next.
Visual structure at a glance.
