Imposter syndrome is a very real thing that affects everyone to different magnitudes. Fortunately, it's something I feel I've got a strong grip on so I would love to share with you what I know. I've packaged the information to resemble that of my all time favorite book, The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz. These are my Four Agreements to Overcome Imposter Syndrome for content creators to be able to freely share their message without fear of judgment. 1. Only teach your truths 2. You don't wan...
Apr 26, 2021•28 min
Instagram Reels has made two major strides closer to being like TikTok in the last month. As with any Instagram update, there are pros and cons. In this episode we will talk about both as well as how your social media marketing efforts may need to change from here. CLICK HERE to get my 2 Course Instagram Bundle for $15 Until the End of May! View the Instagram Reels Example Mentioned: https://www.instagram.com/p/CNdHs4Qn0Nn/ Leave comments about this episode on the YouTube video HERE . Thanks so ...
Apr 19, 2021•26 min
Ready to turn your mind into a content creation machine? Some of this episode will be more applicable for personal brands but still very relevant enough to all businesses. You'll learn my content creation mindset, habits, and then some quick tips you can apply before your next post. VIEW VIRAL TIK TOK Applications I Use: - Canva Pro (Infographics) - Focos (Camera Enhancer) - Preview (View what a post would look like on your feed) - Mix Captions (Auto Generate Professional Subtitles) - Instagram ...
Apr 13, 2021•37 min
Picking a niche is the most common problem among businesses struggling to produce sales. Why? Because it's an extremely difficult thing to do! I'm still picking my niche in fact! Choosing a niche is an ongoing process with an unlimited amount of changes allowed. Finding it sooner rather than later is always nice though, so I hope this episode helps! Apply for my First Timers, Guided Facebook/Instagram Ad Creation Process Here: www.igmsecrets.com/appplication Remember, picking a niche is not just...
Apr 05, 2021•27 min
Want to watch on YouTube instead? Click HERE. I needed to clarify a few other things with Instagram hashtags so that I make sure you all can execute correctly. Hashtag impressions are hard to come by in this very competitive content creator space but there are only so many people who are going to get this info so you're going to be ahead. 🤫 If your results show anything different than the hashtag strategies I talk about in this episode, please DM me @DerekVidell. This is a show for accurate inf...
Mar 22, 2021•13 min
Ever wondered how top entrepreneurs can create so much content while still finding the time to be a regular human around it? John Lee Dumas has interviewed over 3,000 entrepreneurs and has built a significant following almost everywhere at this point! So in this interview, we're going to find out what his content creation process looks like and just how much he's still involved with it today. Then we'll figure out how he has been able to do over 6 figures in pre orders of his new book, The Commo...
Mar 15, 2021•19 min
Here's exactly how to do Instagram hashtags! And when I say exactly... I mean EXACTLY how to do them. This episode is based on countless data from observing mine as well as all of my students' Instagram data so it is as accurate as a non Instagram employee can be. You can also watch this on YouTube HERE! IQ Hashtags: https://iqhashtags.com/?ref=derekvidell1 Free Trial to Flick: https://flick.tech?fpr=derek67 To Get me to Follow you on Clubhouse: 1. Review the podcast and DM a screenshot to @Dere...
Mar 09, 2021•28 min
Entrepreneurship is not for everybody and that's perfectly fine! So are you an Entrepreneur for the right reasons? Here's the two main reasons I came out with this episode: 1. This may make someone reconsider the business they are looking to start and pursue a better opportunity. 2. No true entrepreneur could ever be influenced by someone questioning what they're doing in the slightest way. I could literally get all of your friends and family on board to tell you your idea is garbage and you wou...
Mar 02, 2021•29 min
In this episode, you're going to learn how to grow your sales and following from Clubhouse! Not just on Clubhouse, but how you can use this app to make massive growth to your Instagram page as well. Clubhouse is my new favorite thing that I am ready to go all in on this year. If you're with me, you're going to absolutely love this episode! That's because I'm not going to just teach you how to grow on Clubhouse, I'm going to show you how you can get me to follow you on Clubhouse as well as shout ...
Feb 22, 2021•44 min
There are two kinds of entrepreneurs... 1. Those who could benefit from better focus 2. Those who need help focusing so bad they are in denial they need it Either way, this episode with the Focus CEO, David Wood is gonna be exactly what you need! Get David's Free Focus Guide HERE. Subscribes and Reviews are Much Appreciated my Friends! Thanks, Derek Videll The Climb with Cherie Clonan The Climb is a podcast for people building something meaningful and finding their.. Listen on: Apple Podcasts Sp...
Feb 19, 2021•26 min
Modern day social media marketers face unique challenges. But at the same time, the biggest things holding them back, are often the same. Ben Leavitt has been an avid user of the Clubhouse app over the last month, answering questions from entrepreneurs at all different experience levels, covering any social media marketing platform they want to talk about. He can do so, because he has a good sized following on nearly every social media platform! What's Covered: • What are the most common problem...
Feb 10, 2021•40 min
Josh broke down his journey to YouTube success so now it's time to talk about the implementation side of things for how you can do it! Whether you want to be on YouTube or not, we are primarily covering how to improve your skills on video so it will still be relevant to you! The other thing I added to this episode was a brief take on the new app Clubhouse. I personally LOVE Clubhouse so far as it truly is a new kind of social media and gives us a new way to interact with each other that's much m...
Feb 02, 2021•44 min
Josh Ryan is an absolute stud of a social media marketer. Not only does he have followings of reputable sizes, but he has also been able to monetize his social media in various different ways. He'll be breaking down the order of each of the ways he has monetized his audiences over time and give reasons for the order to which he did so. Find him on Youtube Here or on Instagram as @igwithjosh! Next week I'll be breaking down his YouTube growth strategies and give you implementation pointers to put...
Jan 26, 2021•1 hr 1 min
Is this really the only way to quickly gain real followers who engage with your content and eventually buy your stuff? YES... How do I know? Because I've tried nearly every major online marketing strategy and this has been the only thing that has yielded positive results EVERY SINGLE time. Checkout The Course that will Show you the Exact Steps to Execute this Method (results shown for various businesses) Apply to Execute this Strategy with Derek and Talk on a Weekly Basis More value to come! Che...
Jan 19, 2021•46 min
The question none of us social media marketers want to answer... because the answer is kind of scary 😳 BUT THE SOLUTIONS AREN'T! So that's why we must talk about it. Here is how to combat the mostly dead organic reach of Instagram. APPLY FOR MY MENTORING PROGRAM HERE (Currently has spots open!) Get a Free IQ Hashtags Account Here Get Started with Email Marketing on ConvertKit for Free Here Social media marketing is difficult to do at a high level but I believe anyone with enough tenacity can ma...
Jan 05, 2021•40 min
So you saw The Social Dilemma but you're a social media marketer and can't really do anything about it... or at least you can't just delete social media without it being a huge hit to your business! In this episode, I'll discuss how to be sure your efforts are being best spent on social media and how to trap yourself from getting sucked into meaningless scrolling. The amount of time you spend on income producing activities is key to the speed of growth of your business so before 2021 starts, let...
Dec 29, 2020•38 min
Ready to get more done without working more hours? We are about to improve your overall focus but not from looking for ways to improve it directly. Instead, we are going to look to eliminate the things that are causing the lack of focus in the first place. This entrepreneurial mindset is imperative to adapt if you want a chance at playing the long game. This is a special episode to me and I hope you find it to be too! Feel free to shoot me a DM if you get some takeaways from it! @DerekVidell The...
Dec 17, 2020•25 min
The story engagement algorithm has always been this way but not to the extent that I've seen in recent weeks. It's now not weird to see story impressions fluctuate between 200 - 500 % on a daily basis. Now... like all algorithm changes, this is good and bad - we just have to know what to do about it. Find out why and what you can do to increase your Instagram engagement in this quicker episode of The Social Bamboo Podcast. LEARN MORE ABOUT ENGAGEMENT REPAIR FOR $99 GET INSTA ACCELERATOR AND MAP ...
Dec 11, 2020•17 min
Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, TikTok... Parler? What's going on in the Social Media Marketing world!? As you are listening to a podcast all about Social Media Marketing, you're gonna know first! I'm going to break down each of them one at a time and discus the major changes to how you should use each platform differently in 2021 than in year's past. YOU CAN GET MY FREE INSTA ACCELERATOR COURSE HERE! (You'll then unlock my Map to Monetization course for FREE just for completing IA) OR CONTINUE WA...
Dec 02, 2020•34 min
GET MY ENGAGEMENT REPAIR COURSE ON SALE FOR $99!! www.igmsecrets.com/engagement-repair You can hurt your Instagram engagement faster then you can help it so let's talk about 3 common things a lot of people are doing that's hurting it! Your story engagement is low because people are exiting off your story so I will cover how to fix this in Tip #1. Your regular post engagement is hurting from receiving less and less likes over time which will be discussed in Tip #2. Then we will discuss why you ar...
Nov 24, 2020•31 min
When your followers only follow you on one platform, it does not give your business much of a foundation in the case that something happens with that audience. The account could all of a sudden get hacked, a rush of fake accounts could go follow it, the platform could become less popular or obsolete, or your could even have it disabled whether you were violating terms or not. As keeping my audience populated on multiple platforms has been a key for my recent disablement, I figured I peel back th...
Nov 19, 2020•22 min
Welcome to The Social Bamboo Podcast! Same host, slightly better content, but a new name from the old Instagram Marketing Secrets show. Today we cover the new rearrangement Instagram has done with its major features and what this means for users and creators. Instagram Reels, the Instagram Shop feature, and the new displays on the home feed embody the majority of this episode. GET INSTA ACCELERATOR: www.igmsecrets.com/insta-accelerator Thanks so much for keeping up with me on this next venture! ...
Nov 12, 2020•23 min
UPDATE: With over 750 downloads but less than 10% completion rate, I realized I wasn't helping anyone by giving such a massive program away for free :/ I tried to prove the saying, "that which is free, has no value" false, and I failed to do so. My number one fear with giving away 7.5 hours of course content away for free was that no one would watch it since they weren't truly invested in it. I tried giving a second course away for free to incentivize finishing the first. This was loved by those...
Nov 05, 2020•19 min
Getting less hashtag impressions or none at all? Get an IQHashtags Account Free HERE You will likely fall under one of these three problem categories related to an account suffering from a lack or reach and engagement. I'll of course detail what you need to do to resolve this and if you happen to have the 3rd problem I talk about (an actual shadowban) you'll love when you see the solution is usually a quick fix to get it removed! What people think as Instagram shadowbans are often not actually s...
Oct 29, 2020•18 min
My Instagram Account got disabled for "impersonating another account" and now it's time to get to the bottom of this shit. FOR NOW, PLEASE GO FOLLOW MY BACKUP @IGMSECRETS2 where I will be posting at normal frequency until the account is back! I'm optimistic I'll be getting out back soon but in this episode I'll give you the story of what happened and what I'm doing to get it back as soon as possible, Then listen to the end of this episode to hear about the future of Instagram Marketing Secrets a...
Oct 23, 2020•25 min
Last week's guest, Peter Pru, dropped an absolute knowledge bomb on all of us with his 10+ years of experience in eCommerce! In this week's recap episode, I am going to piggy back off his main point that to win in eCommerce, you have to be able to spend more to acquire a customer then your competitors. I'll do so by going over my 8 scalability tests that you'll want your product to pass at least half of for it to work at a high level. I'll also go into the ways that you can test your product ide...
Oct 15, 2020•40 min
Dropshipping, Affiliate Marketing, Amazon FBA, eBay, Facebook Ads, Click Funnels... Which one do you do? Which one is built to last? Or is that the entirely wrong question to ask? Well, in this case, it's the entirely wrong question to ask! The ability to survive in an ever changing landscape like eCommerce comes down to the ability to think ahead of the curve and asking yourself the right questions! In this interview with eCommerce expert Peter Pru, we unravel how he's been able to innovate way...
Oct 08, 2020•1 hr 8 min
Dr. Judy Ho gave us some excellent insight on the steps to go through to discover our self-sabotage triggers and begin to work through them. So in this episode, I decided to expand on the 5 most common self-sabotage traps I see entrepreneurs fall under and what you can do to avoid them. P.S. Entrepreneurs are often completely unaware of these things otherwise much less would be affected by them! 5 Common Ways Entrepreneurs Self-Sabotage 1. They don't start their business with a big enough why 2....
Oct 02, 2020•37 min
The Host of the Super Charged Life podcast and author of the book, Stop Self Sabotage joins me in one of our best interviews yet! Dr. Judy Ho is the epitome of high performance and she is going to put you back on track to do the same! What's Covered: • Ways to identify self sabotage triggers that can be holding you back • How to have the ability to work through these triggers yourself and get in a positive mindset • How she was able to leverage her personal brand to become a television host • Wh...
Sep 22, 2020•1 hr 26 min
Couldn't believe the episode turned out this long but I really think you'll like it! This episode is sponsored by @igstorystrategy who can revolutionize your brand with trending GIFs and Instagram Filters to be used by the masses! What's Covered: • Why many entrepreneurs fail from only playing the micro game • How major companies have been overthrown from not paying attention to macroscopic trends that came in and swallowed them up • The 3 things you need to do to make sure you hear about the "B...
Sep 10, 2020•52 min
