23/10/2025
I Tested A Viral “Guru” Post this week .....
What Happened Next Proves Everything Wrong With Shortcut Marketing.....
A post came through my feed. I don’t scroll often, usually it’s just Isles of Scilly memoirs, but this one stopped me cold. ☠
It was from one of those multimillionaire online gurus and it said:
“H𝗼𝘄 𝗜 𝗠𝗮𝗸𝗲 $𝟭𝗞–$𝟰𝗞 𝗮 𝗗𝗮𝘆 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗝𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝟮–3 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝗮 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗵 (𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝗪𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗦𝗮𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘀).”
You can see why it caught my attention.🙄
If you run a business, that headline hits the brain like a spark ⚡ It’s clean, confident, and plays every human lever we’ve got.
So I tested it. I took the text and boosted it as a test post on my own page to see how people would react.
In less than 24 hours it had already stopped over 500 people mid-scroll.
I wanted to share the reason why it's happening though and what to watch out for.
That headline taps into a deep survival instinct.
The promise of less effort and more reward.
Our brains still crave shortcuts.
They always have.
𝗕𝘂𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗮 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝘂𝘁, 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗵𝗶𝘁 𝗮 𝘄𝗮𝗹𝗹.
The Facebook Algorithm is already rewarding authentic visibility 🎯 & no longer the "𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘤𝘶𝘵𝘴".
𝗣𝗟𝗨𝗦 The algorithm 〰 has learned to recognise human consistency over viral tricks 🤖 😎
That’s why Laurel Portié’s ecosystem is about to become even more valuable.
Her method trains the algorithm to know who you are, who you serve, and it keeps the right people interested until they are ready to purchase.
It builds presence, trust, clarity, and certainty through simple, real videos 🌱
So while others chase the next dopamine hook, you’ll already be in front of the right people, week after week, looking like the steady obvious choice in a noisy feed.
If you want to learn how to structure your own Power Content so it also trains the algorithm to work for you instead of against you, ask me for “The Power Content Structure” below 🧭 I’ll send it over so you can start building the kind of visibility that lasts.
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