u/torontojace

I managed to build a well paid career prior to the explosion of teaching online. Some of my success came by accident as I figured things out, and other skills I deliberately taught myself to be able to grow.

I'd love to hear from teachers navigating today’s teaching landscape what your biggest challenges to building a sustainable teaching career are?
What have you tried that hasn't worked?
Are you teaching in studios or renting your own space and how long have you been at it?

Okay, so I have a small account and when I got to 200 followers I immediately started to use trial reels.

Apparently you can post 5 trial reels a day, but I don’t understand why you would unless a reel completely flopped and you decided to try again.

So one of my reels was doing fine, in 7 hours it was at about 2000 views and still actively climbing. I assumed since it had been 7 hours it would be safe to post the next trial reel… but by posting another one it immediately killed the prior one. Completely stopped it dead in its tracks.

The reel I posted that stopped that one ended up going viral. It had 120k views in the first 24hrs. Another 260k the next day… my notifications were going insane. Day 3 it slowed down but still had steady growth… it took me from 219 followed to 520.

It was still getting about 10,000 views a day and I published it to my feed and that killed it. I made sure to do it at a time that I had more followers active, and it dropped down to 1k views a day and now it gets a few hundred.

While that video was going viral, i didn’t post anything else because I was afraid it would kill it, so it was a week with no additional posts.

So how are people posting so often without it killing views of things that are still building? How can you post 5 trial reels in a day without killing the one you posted prior? It doesn’t make a lot of sense to me how the algorithm works. I see contradictory behaviour all the time.