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Stella · B2C · AI manifestation app

Start videos with 'Repeat these for 7 days' so people save them

Founder says saves lift engagement and make it go viral 'every time'; no numbers

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What they did

Affirmation videos open with an instruction like 'Repeat these affirmations for 7 days' or 'Listen three times'. Because viewers need to come back, they save the video; saves raise engagement and push distribution. General rule: make content that naturally earns shares or saves.

What happened

Guest claims saveable content goes viral every time; no figures.
Stage
growth

In their words

She Built This $300K/Month App in 60 Days

Play from 10:56
10:51

Sarah's videoYou can actually get custom affirmations on your lock screen every single day using my app, Stella.

10:56

Sarah PearlBoom! I say the affirmations, and then the guy asks me, "How can I remember all of these?" And then I basically like, "Just go use my app, Stella." I would say the first thing is typically when I make my affirmation videos, I will start it with like, "Repeat these affirmations for 7 days," or "Listen three times." When you see something like that, your first instinct is let me save this video, because if you have to repeat it for 7 days, like you're going to have to come back to it. When someone saves a video, then it increases engagement. There you go. And in general, this is very saveable content, right? People want to like listen to an affirmation another day. So if you can make content that naturally gets shares or saves, that's going to make it go viral every time.

11:31

Sarah PearlAnother thing is I would just say I'm really good at creating affirmations, so that also is why it goes viral. So if there's something that you are really good at, or you have like a unique spin on, that contributes to it. Another thing I really like to do on Instagram specifically is use Manychat. So I'll tell people, "Comment download and I'll send you your custom affirmations." And then they download the app. And actually, in the Manychat, I …

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