Instagram Story Hack to 3X Your Views + Reading Masterclass

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📚 Hey, good morning! Time to win.

You’re going to want to capitalize on this Instagram Story hack I just found out about before EVERYONE figures this out and you lose your competitive advantage.

You can see here that I have 2,341 Stories views - that's just in the last 8 hours!

This hack (that I just learned about today) gave me 2400 views, but also 30+ new email subscribers, and $40 in Beehiiv “Boost” revenue, which is basically money I get for referring people to other great newsletters after signing up to mine.

It’s essentially passive income. I did ZERO work to make that $40 and it’s just magically flowing into my account.

In this post, I break down exactly how you can capitalize on it too before Instagram changes their mind :)

I also hosted a live masterclass on my note-taking system earlier today - well, yesterday haha - and the replay is up on YouTube now.

Time stamps are available on the video as well that will take you directly to the following topics:

1:19 - It All Started with One Book

5:10 - The 3 Simple Tools I Use

8:10 - Advantages of Google Docs

11:00 - What Should Make It Into Your Notes?

16:00 - Stay in Flow as Much as Possible

23:15 - Put Everything in Your Own Words

24:30 - Two Tactics for Remembering

29:10 - Excellent Book Recommendations

31:55 - The Best Way to Learn Anything

I’ll be hosting plenty more of these masterclasses on all sorts of different topics, and members of The Competitive Advantage community will be invited live to ask questions, get personal help from me, etc.

I even have a few guest presenters lined up (authors, experts, high performers) and they’ll be giving their own masterclasses as well, with the recordings all being made available to members!

There are still 10 spots remaining inside The Competitive Advantage community and you can grab one of the last remaining ones here.

If you want my personal help to add between $1-5K/month in monthly recurring revenue to your business, and grow your audience and authority by leaps and bounds at the same time, that’s exactly where you need to be. Join here.

Within My Direct Control:

Read 20 Books | 16 Books Left

Publish 8 New Time Mastery Videos | 8 Videos Left

Publish 29 YouTube Videos | 26 Videos Left

Publish 150 Medium Articles | 136 Articles Left

Completely Update My Social Media | Incomplete

Completely Update My Patreon Page | Incomplete

Completely Update My Newsletter Platforms | Incomplete

Completely Update My Email Welcome Sequence | Incomplete

Launch Affiliate Program for My Paid Community | Incomplete

Update 20 Patreon Book Notes | 20 Book Notes Left

Introduce Myself to 600 Authors | 576 Authors Left

Not Within My Direct Control:

Get Monetized on YouTube | 3,660 Watch Hours Left

Negotiate 12 Newsletter Partnerships | 12 Partnerships Left

Organize 12 Instagram Collaborations | 12 Collaborations Left

Reach 115,000 Instagram Followers | 6,013 Followers Left

Reach 20,000 Threads Followers | 4,400 Followers Left

Reach 10,000 X Followers | 2,383 Followers Left

Reach 3,000 Medium Followers | 1,126 Followers Left

Reach 2,000 Facebook Followers | 759 Followers Left

Reach 2,000 LinkedIn Followers | 1,306 Followers Left

Reach 10,000 YouTube Subscribers | 8,705 Subscribers Left

Reach 10,000 Reading Life Subscribers | 6,304 Subscribers Left

Reach 1,000 Competitive Advantage Subscribers | 524 Subscribers Left

Reach 50 Competitive Advantage Members | 10 Members Left

Reach 40 Patreon Supporters | 16 Supporters Left

Note: I’ll update follower counts once per week, since it’s such a waste of time to go through all of them every single night. Also, Threads annoyingly doesn’t give exact numbers. Oh well.

Read 5 Books | 4 Books Left

Publish 3 New Time Mastery Videos | 3 Videos Left

Publish 7 YouTube Videos | 4 Videos Left

Publish 35 Medium Articles | 30 Articles Left

Completely Update My Facebook Profile | Incomplete

Completely Update My LinkedIn Profile | Incomplete

Completely Update My Threads Profile | Incomplete

Completely Update My Medium Profile | Incomplete

Completely Update My Email Welcome Sequence | Incomplete

Update 10 Patreon Book Notes | 10 Book Notes Left

Introduce Myself to 200 Authors | 196 Authors Left

Woke Up: 12:00PM

Sleep Quality: 70%

Pages Read: 89

Workout: OFF

Missed the gym because I was editing the masterclass. I did some bodyweight exercises at home (today was legs), but it wasn’t really a full workout. Better than nothing, but still no excuse.

Work Completed:

Posted 1x on Instagram

Posted 7x on Twitter

Posted 6x on Threads

Posted 2x on Facebook

Posted 2x on LinkedIn

Published/Scheduled 3 Medium Articles

Published 1 YouTube Video

Posted 1x to YouTube Community Tab

Managed My Skool Community

Delivered My Note-Taking Masterclass

Introduced Myself to 3 New Authors

Organized Some Author Marketing Campaigns

Completely Organized My Workflow for Tomorrow

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Absolutely wild day FULL of wins. I crushed it, I really did. With the exception of skipping the gym, of course, which I always hate doing.

But yea: the masterclass was incredible, I made some good money today, made progress on my goals, got some great reading done, spent some time with my family…just a great day.

But hey, it’s 5:42AM here right now and I’m going to bed!

All the best,

Matt Karamazov

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