No one can predict with certainty which Instagram reels are going to take off. Even so, the insiders at Instagram have identified four production tips that will give your videos an edge over others. In this episode, we discuss these tips, along with a few of our own, in detail with examples to help illustrate how to implement them. Listen to discover two ways you can make your Instagram reels more relatable to your audience, four tips you should be using to make creating reels easier (including one that will encourage Instagram to promote yours), and more hacks and tools we use at Stay Paid to improve our production quality that you can easily use to popularize your reels too.

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0:00 Introduction

1:14 Instagram's Professional Dashboard

1:52 Tip 1: Create reels that are uniquely you

3:46 Tip 2: Be relatable

4:48 Tip 3: Keep it simple

5:10 Extra tip: Use trending audio

6:25 Tip 3: Keep it simple (continued)

7:12 Extra tip: Develop attention-grabbing hooks

8:48 Tip 4: Add text to your reels

11:22 Consistency builds trust

12:30 Action Item