Four principles from 2,200 Instagram posts that explain why some personal brands feel expensive and others feel cheap, with real creator examples for each.
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Big Idea
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Personal brands feel expensive when every post, from lifestyle flexes to viral reach content, is deliberately tied back to one buyer identity, one offer, and one word the brand owns.
Who This Is For
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A coach, consultant or info-product seller who sells through Instagram DMs or webinars and wants content that produces buyers, not just views.
A creator with under 10,000 followers who suspects their content gets attention but never turns into booked calls.
Someone selling a boring or unglamorous offer (like Section 8 investing) who needs a way to make it feel aspirational.
An agency owner or content manager who needs to judge sales content by leads and cash collected rather than view counts.
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You want Instagram algorithm mechanics or posting schedules; this is about buyer psychology and positioning.
You sell low-priced physical goods to a mass market where trust and identity matter less.
TL;DR
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Personal brands feel expensive when their content builds trust in a deliberate order. Jeremy Moser reviewed 2,200 Instagram posts and found four principles. First, sell the buyer a future version of themselves through your origin story and lifestyle. Second, tie every flex or funny story back to the business model so lifestyle becomes proof. Third, run reach posts and conversion posts side by side, and judge the conversion posts by leads and cash, not views. Fourth, own one word or identity in your market so buyers pair you with their goal. Practically: map your buyer's desires, write your origin story, and attach every post to your vehicle.
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Why some brands feel expensive, and the 2,200-post study behind four principles.
00:50 – 06:55
02 · Principle 1: Sell a version of the buyer
Shelby Sapp's barista-to-millionaire story, Paul Alex's detective transformation reel, and how to apply it.
06:55 – 12:33
03 · Principle 2: Tie lifestyle to the vehicle
Tom Cruz's Rolls Royce umbrella reel, the Dubai relocation reel lesson, and attaching proof to the business model.
12:33 – 16:00
04 · Principle 3: Reach versus conversion
Maria Wendt's flamingo reel versus her tactical sales posts, and judging content by leads and cash.
16:00 – 20:10
05 · Principle 4: Own a positioning
Jeremy Haynes and the million-a-month identity, three Airbnb clients with distinct positions, and the closing funnel pointer.
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A lifestyle flex alone says 'I'm rich'; a flex tied to the business model says 'I'm rich because I did X', which is what makes a viewer want the same path.
Viral reach content and conversion content are different jobs; a 9 million view post builds awareness while a quiet tactical post can make $2,500.
A reel can get 32 million views and still sell nothing if it attracts the wrong desire: a relocation reel pulled relocation-service leads for an Airbnb coaching offer.
Sales content should be judged by lead-to-call ratio and cash collected per booked call, not by views.
A sales post does not need millions of views; it needs enough of the right people to get a reason to reach out.
Three Airbnb education clients had record months back to back because each owned a different positioning: freedom with family, tax write-offs, and a specific founder story.
Telling funny stories that allude to the point makes a boring niche like Section 8 investing feel lucrative and entertaining.
You do not need a yacht as proof; a simple booking screenshot can do the same job because the buyer both sees themselves in you and believes you.
Being synonymous with one outcome, like Jeremy Haynes with a million dollars a month, gives buyers a mental shortcut to choose you over competitors.
Choose the part of your origin story that matches your buyer: a broke-in-college story fits B2C, a built-from-zero business story fits B2B.
Running your sales call transcripts through an AI model is a fast way to map what your buyer wants to become.
Being explicit about who you speak to, even to the point of excluding men, makes the right audience feel they belong in your space.
Takeaway
Make every post point at the offer
WHAT TO LEARN
Content feels expensive when buyers see themselves in you, believe you, and can tell exactly what you are known for, and all of that has to connect back to the offer.
02Principle 1: Sell the buyer a version of themselves
Write down who your buyer is today and who they want to become, then tell your origin story in the version that matches that buyer.
Show a lifestyle that matches what your buyer wants; a flex that does not fit their values, like watches for family-focused buyers, works against you.
03Principle 2: Tie lifestyle back to the vehicle
Attach every flex, opinion or funny story to your business model with a line like 'I can afford this because of X', so lifestyle becomes proof.
Back lifestyle attention with technical content that shows real numbers, so viewers move from relating to you to trusting you can deliver.
04Principle 3: Separate reach from conversion
Run reach posts for awareness and conversion posts for sales, and never expect one post to do both jobs.
Measure sales content by leads, lead-to-call ratio and cash collected per booked call, not by views alone.
05Principle 4: Own a positioning
Pick one word or identity you can own in your market and make all your content buckets reinforce that narrative.
Expect a viral post to attract whatever desire it speaks to; make sure the topic leads toward what you actually sell.
Glossary
Terms worth knowing.
ICP
Ideal customer profile. The specific type of person who is the best fit to buy your offer and who your content is written to attract.
Lifestyle flex
A post that shows status symbols like cars or watches. It earns attention but only builds trust when tied back to how the money was made.
Conversion content
Posts built to start sales conversations, usually tactical and specific, ending with a call to action like commenting a keyword or sending a DM.
Reach content
Posts built for views and awareness, often entertaining or emotional, with little or no product pitch.
Lead-to-call ratio
The share of leads from content who go on to book a sales call. Used to judge whether a post attracts buyers.
Positioning
The single word, identity or outcome your brand is known for, so buyers think of you first when they want that result.
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Why is it that some personal brands just feel really, really expensive, while others just feel a bit like dull or even cheap? And that's regardless of how many views or followers that they actually have. After generating over $100 million for some of the leading personal brands in the space and picking some brands from zero all the way up to eight figures a year, as well as getting behind the scenes looks at nearly every 10 out of 10 personal brands, I've discovered that the answer to this question comes down to four psychological principles that turn content into undeniable trust and ultimately sales.
And just to prove this, I went through two... 2 ,200 posts of the biggest personal brands on Instagram right now, including one that sells $120 ,000 program without a single reel getting over a million views. In this video, I'll show you how each of them uses these principles like literal content assassins and how you can apply this to your own brand.
And that's even if you have less than 10 ,000 followers. I'm gonna start out with the one and only Mrs. Shelby Sapp.
Now, Shelby has this one principle that's like she sells the buyer a version of themselves. Shelby, she sells to women that want to go and get potentially into sales. And the one thing that she does always is she ties it back into where started she goes into how she worked as a barista making minimum wage and how she had this massive transformation to not being a multi -millionaire more often not the women she sells you they can actually relate to her now this doesn't mean that they're all baristas but it's that they work certain jobs that they don't like that they earn an income that they don't like and they have aspirations for a bigger goal and then again the very simple thing is even status symbols that she shows you know her pink porsche the pink rolls royce the custom g wagon everything that she shows materializes that future version that her audience is tempting to achieve, but also shows that the transformation of Shelby's old self working for minimum wage to that newer self of her has been completed.
It kind of creates this narrative of like, hey, this lady who, you know, has the life that I want once was where I am right now, which creates that relatability. And ultimately, it creates that connection where what you want as the buying audience is you want to be able to relate to the person. Because if I believe that what is possible for, you know, you as a creator that I want, then the belief in me as a person to you, being able to achieve the same grows by the dozens.
And ultimately, those are the exact type of levers that can set yourself apart from all your competitors. Having your story, having your opinions and like kind of what makes you special out there is all connection points that ultimately sell people on the journey. And to note this, Shelby is extremely clear cut on the person that she wants to speak to.
Hence, she almost quote unquote discriminates against men, which is a genius marketing move because women want to be in a space where it's just the girls. All in all, what Shelby does... you know her lifestyle as well as her storytelling content is she gives a very specific version of that life to her audience and then ultimately creates the bridge between where they're at right now to where they want to go through getting into sales aka people watch away from the reels they think wow for me to be able to complete that transformation as well i gotta get into sales by the time where shelby actually makes an offer they are like yeah this is actually the right vehicle and like i'm actually ready for it now as an example i'm probably linked this here in a second to actually go and show you this one reel they got 14 .4 million views which is incredible But what makes it more incredible is that real will actually go make her a fuck ton of money.
Now, let's go through this role real quick. And then I'm actually going to go and show you how this makes money. Because one of my students made $30 ,000 last month, only working Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
And I told her, I'm like, why the fuck wouldn't you work all week? Now, throughout this reel, she gradually peppers in the word sales and shows how it kind of helped her and then ultimately has the call to action being to comment the word sales for a free life masterclass. On the life masterclass, aka the good old webinar, she can then show the career path, which again, women who are qualified will want to go and take, which comes by enrolling into the Shelby SAP community.
The identity content that Shelby creates, that is really crafting the desire where people think like, wow, I need that in my life so I can either escape pain or I can achieve stuff. Now, we have actually taken exact same principle for some of our clients as an example our client paul alex he's a former detective he worked in law enforcement for quite a while and he takes quite a lot of pride in it and very early on what he's noticed is that a lot of his buyers were actually law enforcement officer as a result off of that we realized that a lot of our content had to be geared towards speaking to those individuals so for context right paul as a detective just wanted to have more control of his time as well as financial control over his future to be able to give back to his family one of our best performing content pieces this year is an actual transformation story show showing how he had the desire to potentially leave a career that he so much appreciates to then becoming a business owner.
And just by having a really good understanding of not only Paul's story, but also the desires and kind of mental conversations that his customers have, we were able to craft the transformation reel that got over 3 .2 million views. Now, if you know my channel, I always speak about how views aren't equal. And this is very much true still.
But because the reel not only showed the big discrepancy in like his life from then to now, as well as the journey throughout it, it also pinpointed the vehicle that he is... as the binding line, which then creates a desire for people to actually go and buy. Now, Paul backs that up with different kinds of content.
For example, we make posts around how he drives a Toyota, despite being a multimillionaire. Also pointing out how like safety and family time and having control over his environment is something that's super important to Paul, which plays in because a lot of his ICP, people that jump on those calls are fathers, first responders, or couples that want to have kids and give them the best possible life.
And so again, it kind of makes sure that the content presents itself as a future version of that particular individual. Now, to make this super practical, here's how you can apply this to yourself.
Number one, you want to go and write down exactly who your buyer is right now and what they want to become. Like, I want you to go and map out the problems, the situations they're probably in, as well as their ultimate desires. And if you don't have that, you can just use cloth, run your sales call through, and you should get some pretty good insights.
And then you want to go and figure out, number two, what is your actual origin story? At what moment did you realize you had to make a change? What were the changes you made?
What worked? What didn't? How did you discover your vehicle and have ultimately...
this light bulb moment? And last but not least, how did the journey go from the light bulb moment to being successful there? And now from there, you use those elements in two different versions.
One, go ask yourself how you could tell your story in a way where people would resonate with it. So as an example, myself, right? I used to be in college and despite coming from a decent family background in college at a time, I had less than, you know, $10 in my bank account.
And here's the thing. My first option, if I would sell B2C would be to go and use my story of at less than a hundred dollars in my account. And here's exactly how I escaped from that to become a millionaire.
And if I sell B2B, I wouldn't use that part. I would more focus on the part how I built this business from zero to the ground up by leveraging my background as an athlete, because that's more relevant to a business owner. The second thing that you can do besides the storytelling is you can figure out whether or not the lifestyle that you're currently showing is actually what your buyer wants, or if what you're currently posting actually doesn't really resonate with them.
As an example, if I was selling to a more sophisticated demographic that cared more about children or whatever, me going flexing watches in their faces probably wouldn't be the play to go. Once people... resonate with you as the ideal persona.
The one thing that they do is that they need to believe that one, you're legit, but also two, that you are an aspirational person that can actually help them do that transformation. In my opinion, there's nobody better than Tom Cruise. I'm not talking about the actor.
Now for context, Tom Cruise is a Section 8 investor and he makes content around how the average person get into Section 8. If there's one thing you know about the topic of Section 8, it's boring as fuck. And so for someone to go and think that, oh, I want to tie my financial future to Section 8, they're going to have a really compelling reason.
And Tom delivers that better than anyone I have seen. Now, Tom specifically does two particular things. Number one, extremely funny story.
Number two, extraordinary reflexes. For example, he has a video that got like, I think close to 6 million views, where he literally just shows out how much an umbrella of his Rolls Royce cost, casually putting in that he essentially goes and has six plus Rolls Royce in his lifetime. Now, what it does is a few things.
One, it clearly just kind of flexes on the audience, to be quite frank with you. And the way he does is in a very humorous, not like I'm taking myself so serious way. which is a big distinguisher.
Number two, it kind of paints the picture like, wow, this is like really impressing he's able to afford it, which brings the question, how is he able to go and do that? The one thing that Tom does that most people fail to go and do is that whenever he pinpoints a lifestyle flex, a fancy bill, or just something in general that makes him stand out from the crowd, he manages to go and tie it back into the topic of Section 8.
AKA at the end of his videos, he goes and says, you know, if you wonder how I'm able to afford Section 8, I have this many properties that pay me at least this much a month, which is how I'm able. to go and afford it. And if you have over 10 to 15K to invest, well, message me.
The crazy thing is this. There's a few things happening here, right? One, he essentially just gives you an authority play of like, have this many Section A properties.
Cool, introduced the concept. Number two, he actually makes it lucrative and relevant to you by articulating that, hey, if you have 10 to 15 grand, you can actually pay into that, right? So it kind of creates desire already.
But also, last but not least, he creates a connection. He shows you that, hey, this is because of this. Most people fail to go and do that.
It's a very good example. You know, about two years ago, we had a client who moved from the UK to the... And at the time, the whole location moving stuff was a massive topic.
And so why not play into it, right? What we essentially went and done is, hey, if we move from the UK to Dubai, we honestly wish we had done it sooner. We showed how like Dubai is just so much better than the UK in the client's mind.
The Reel got 32 million views. Here's the caveat. Not one word or one slide that we wrote mentioned the word Airbnb or tied it back into the client's decision to start an Airbnb.
So yeah, we get a bunch of views, got us like thousands of followers and, you know, hundreds, if not thousands of DMs. But here's the thing, all these guys reached out about... was relocation services.
And we didn't really have any relocation services. What we did have was an Airbnb coaching offer. So to reframe someone from wanting to relocate to like buying Airbnb is quite significant to be quite frank with you.
And this is what Tom does different. He makes sure that whenever he mentions a lifestyle flex or something funny, he ties it back into Section 8, which means in the worst case, people now associate certain topics or certain purchases with being a Section 8 investor, which now again makes his more boring content piece, which might be how to go and furnish a property or what, you know, regulations to go and follow more.
interesting which brings me to the second thing that is extraordinary well he's able to make it aspirational by being humorous a lot of the tactical knickknack he doesn't go through like step one step two step three step four he actually tells stories that elude the point because he understands the section is really boring he's trying to make it entertaining which makes it not only stand out from the fact that it's a really boring and weird business but it also makes it very lucrative so by telling fun stories it has this entertainment value where it's like oh It's actually a cool business model.
It makes money, but also sounds like it has some pretty funny stories. Now, to pull back the curtain slightly here, the psychology is super simple. A lifestyle flex alone or like a vague income disclaimer alone just says, I'm rich, fuck you.
But by connecting it, it says, I'm rich because I did X. That then gives people a reason to go and say, oh, this guy did this and this is the outcome. This is what I want to do too.
As opposed to saying, cool, you're rich or cool, you're umbrella because this much money, right? And then again, when on top of that, you can back it up. with more technical content where you actually show the number.
That goes from someone saying like, oh, I can relate to that guy to going, not only can I relate to that guy, but he is actually the person that I want to become. And he seems trustworthy enough to where he can back it up. Ultimately, the lifestyle is what gets the attention.
And then the math and tactical is what gets the viewer an actual reason to purchase. Now, again, just to make it super simple, this entire reel is a funnel in of itself. The top of funnel thing is the Rolls Royce that actually like gets people's attention.
The sort of like story of it is the middle of the funnel where it nurtures them up. And then ultimately the bottom of funneling like how Section 8 ties into it as well as the call to action to get his masterclass is ultimately how people actually end up in his DMs. For us as an example, using Paul Alex as an example, our content keeps coming back to the fact that he has, you know, 80 plus locations paying him residuals for his credit card machines.
The numbers that he makes, they're directly attached to the business. And then by slightly or just in a high level view explaining the business, people go, wow, this is more lucrative than I thought I should get into it. Or they have the first epiphany that, wow, well, if he could...
make this much money, maybe I could just make a 10, which still to me is a fuckload of money. Now the point here is simple. Whenever you can, you want to show some underlying proof and be able to draw conclusions back to your business model.
Whether it's opinions, whether it's like news, whether it is like luxurious items, whatever you do, you want to find a way to attach it back up to the vehicle that you're selling. Because ultimately that's the conclusion people have, which subconsciously further ascends them inside of their buying cycle. And to be frank with you, you don't need a yacht, a simple booking screenshot can do the exact same job for you because the buyer not only sees themselves in you, but they also believe you.
Real quick disclaimer before we proceed. If you just want us to go and like take over your content for you, create the entire strategy, plug and play our exact systems that we've used to make clients upwards of $1 .5 million a month, then we're going to look at your content, your current numbers, as well as your entire conversion process and give you a custom plan to actually go and scale in the worst case, leave with that for free.
Now, if you want that, click the link below and looking forward to chatting with you. Now, back to the video. Some posts are just optimized for reach.
Other posts are optimized for conversions. And the thing is, when you make them the same is when your bank account slowly starts dying out. As an example, I want to use this creator called Maria Vent.
She's fairly prolific in the online coaching space, helping women go make money and dart and build their businesses. Now, in her bio, it says that she's done over $23 million selling digital products. Her biggest post from the last year doesn't mention any of them.
In particular, this particular real hill, it basically talks about like how flamingos lose their like color after they have children. 1 million views and there's no product cta now furthermore her bio reads god motherhood business in that exact order and so that in of itself gives mothers the reason to feel understood now we looked at her top 20 reels and 10 most recent posts 19 of those 30 pieces had a cta here's the thing For every post that she does that talks about like flamingos and like just gets a lot of views, there's a post that just talks about a very specific nuance or a very specific product that she sells and drives people towards that post.
Here's what most people don't understand. People look at the 9 .1 million views as the reason she's successful, but they ignore the fact that this is to drive awareness. This is for people to get to know who Maria is and what she actually does.
Then the tactical, more specific posts that on the front end look unsuccessful are actually the ones that drive a lot of conversions. Now as an example, right? In one of the reels that Maria gets, she's like super tactical.
she explained how Instagram traffic turns to low ticket sales. Again, how those type of reels each make her $2 ,500. Now, the reason this works is because the engagement posts around flamingos get a bunch of attention that almost similar to ads get retargeted with the more tactical posts.
Those sales posts then really ask someone that already knows her and kind of engage with what she's doing for the conversion. They essentially then go and give them some tactical value or some like strategy and then ask her to either comment or send a direct DM to enter the sales conversation. Now, again, for Maria specifically, she sells low ticket products.
So her front end offers can be a dollar of $24 and then really go and ascend to something that's probably multiple four figures. For us, what we then go and do is we have posts on our accounts that, you know, get 5 million views. You know, they get thousands of followers and potentially just one sale, which could even be in the results because these people just discovered you and they just become aware of who you are.
The real power lies in combining those posts with conversion oriented posts, where essentially you just create content that's more tactical and then answers the questions people have. they initially follow you so to level this with you say i make a post around my identity as well as my origin story what i would do in that case i was i want you to get to know me and kind of explain who i am and what i do that creates likeness and whatnot if i share some lifestyle pictures which will be discussed in tom cruise case they kind of build some like awareness of like hey you could actually help them and they become fond of you but it's a conversion kind of content that we haven't spoken about that are super specific they give you a clear outcome and they actually show you how the creator or you can help your audience and why they should go and do it.
You build up awareness, which then gives you the layer to actually go and connect with them and kind of build trust up with you and ultimately liquidate that trust through strategic asking inside of your content. Now, vice versa, right? We've seen videos with millions of views get barely any sales.
We've seen videos with, you know, 10, 20, 50 ,000 views that get, you know, close to 100 ,000 plus in sales. That discrepancy is why we judge sales content based on leads, as well as like metrics such as lead to call ratio, cash collected per book to call, and not just views alone, right? In any video where I talk about generating sales.
We want to go and track the actual numbers, not just surface level metrics. Frankly speaking, a sales post ultimately doesn't need millions of views. It needs enough of the right people that get a reason to actually reach out.
And so again, this really brings me to the last lesson, which matters a lot more if you sell something that's a bit more high ticket. Now, for someone to actually purchase something with you, let alone something big, they need to have a strong reason. And the reason is on the one side, like, yeah, I have a goal that I want to going to achieve, the pain that I'm trying to achieve.
It's one of those two things, but it's ultimately also a... yeah this person is a right fit for me and for that right fit to go and be achieved you need to stand for something so like as an example right imangazi does he have the most successful agency of all time no but he is synonymous with at first the social media marketing agency but now with digital products by being synonymous it kind of invokes that trust and when someone has a reason or a desire to fulfill they want to be paired with someone that feels synonymous to it for point number four i want to use one of my mentors jeremy haynes jeremy haynes sells a program that's 120 thousand dollars a year to individuals that want to scale to the infamous middle of month mark.
From the get go, that was always his goal. And that was the one thing that he was big on. He always started talking about this very math.
Over time, he became known as the middle of month guy. All his content kind of tracks back into that very identity. And because as someone who wants to scale to middle of month, people want to attach to someone or buy from someone that already has that identity, which is why him being known for that is so important.
The way he presents himself is as someone who takes money very seriously. and appreciates money quite a bit. Every single content is related to making more money, the mindset of getting richer, as well as like actual lessons and tactics to get to a million dollars a month.
And then even within his sales process, he understands his own math getting to it and is willing to make changes, aka setting limitations up, creating scarcity, and very much like apply those lessons. And so when you as a potential customer want to go and buy, you see that attachment people have to his brand. Like if I want to get to a million a month, Jeremy Haynes is the guy.
By having that like mental connotation, and sort of mental real estate, you're able to go and stand out compared to the competitors. We once had a client who was in the Airbnb space.
And at a concurrent time, we had three clients who were actually selling Airbnb education. Now, here's the thing. All those three clients, before you call me bad marketer, actually had back -to -back record months, meaning that each business had a record -breaking month in back -to -back months while we were doing the marketing.
The reason for it is exactly that. It's differentiation through positioning. One client was very good from like a perspective of, I have this freedom business that allows me and my family to be really happy.
second guy though almost doing the same thing had the unique differentiator of like i buy properties and essentially like use them as a tax write -off and then the last but not least the third guy had this massive thing of like a very specific segment based on his story once again we capitalized on different markets for each client because we understood how to occupy a certain keyword as an example the client who had a very special story every single person who has you know an american asian background as well as has some form of high -paying job wanted to be that guy based on his lifestyle based on how he went about life right on the flip side all the couples and like families that just wanted to travel around the world with their kids while they're young and wanted to raise their kids in a certain way would go with client number two because that's what he was able to represent and that's a word and certified the positioning that he took of care and number three the guy who was very much like i'll help you build wealth through short -term rentals took over that space and so for yourself what you want to do is you want to understand like what am i know as an example to give you a good point jeremy minor right you think of him like sales expert cool any pq his wording was like any pq as well as like he's the guy that made 2 .4 million dollars
straight commission for like two or three years straight you think of someone like rob the bank sold his amazon business for 30 million dollars that makes him an authority and that is really the thing that you get him to know for you want to find your unique positioning or the word that you can control and then make your content play into that because now when people can relate to you right they think oh this person's relatable they trust you and you have the mixture of both conversion and reach content all that content has to fall within buckets that reinforce the overall narrative that you want to be pushing because ultimately it's a narrative that you're creating And when you achieve that, that's exactly when people go, wow, this content feels so good.
And although I can't explain it, it makes me want to spend an ungodly amount of money, potentially even more than I would with competitors. And number two, it actually makes me want to purchase. Now, once you have the positioning right, you still need the full funnel behind it because the psychology, the post, all that stuff is cool, but it doesn't matter if you actually have a system behind it.
And I actually broke down the entire Instagram funnel in this particular video here, which includes the offer, the content, the stories, the lead magnet, the entire flow inside of the DMs and how to actually... actually bring it all together. And if you haven't already, please like, and subscribe.
I really hope you liked this.
The Hook
The bait, then the rug-pull.
Some personal brands feel expensive and others feel cheap, no matter how many followers they have. Jeremy Moser went through 2,200 posts from the biggest Instagram personal brands and pulled out four principles, each shown through a creator who sells on trust rather than views.
Frameworks
Named ideas worth stealing.
00:50list
Four principles of expensive-feeling personal brands
Sell the buyer a version of themselves
Tie lifestyle back to the vehicle
Separate reach from conversion content
Own a positioning word
Four psychological levers that turn content into trust and sales.
Steal forauditing an Instagram content plan
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Rolls Royce reel as a funnel
Top: the flex gets attention
Middle: the story nurtures
Bottom: tie to Section 8 plus call to action
A single reel can carry top, middle and bottom of funnel when the flex is tied back to the offer.
Steal forstructuring a lifestyle reel
CTA Breakdown
How they asked for the click.
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