Make 150 Trial Reels for Instagram in 15 minutes using ChatGPT and Canva - 868

Build Your Tribe | Grow Your Business with Social Media

Brock Johnson

Business, Marketing

4.9 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2026

⏱️ 17 minutes

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In this episode, Brock Johnson walks through his exact system for creating 150 Instagram Trial Reels in just 15 minutes using ChatGPT and Canva. Brock breaks down how I batch content efficiently, generate Reel ideas with AI, and turn those ideas into repeatable formats that are easy to produce at scale. Brock explains how to use ChatGPT for shot lists, quotes, and text prompts, how to use Canva’s bulk create features, and how to organize everything using simple workflows like Google Sheets and scheduling tools such as Metricool. This episode focuses on building a fast, repeatable Trial Reels system that helps you test content, post more consistently, and grow on Instagram without spending hours creating Reels. Watch On YouTube 👉https://www.youtube.com/@BuildYourTribePodcast/videos 🎯Prompts: This is a Trial Reel ChatGPT Prompt: “Generate 50 different versions of 1–3 sentence on-screen text blocks for Instagram Trial Reels. Each text block should explicitly mention that this is a trial reel and encourage interaction (follow, comment, guess, pause, tap, or think). The tone should be casual, confident, slightly playful, and not salesy. Avoid emojis, hashtags, and calls to “link in bio.” Some prompts should: – Call out that the viewer doesn’t follow me (yet) – Reference the algorithm showing this anyway – Invite guessing, curiosity, or self-identification – Lightly tease or challenge the viewer Output as a numbered list from 1–50.” Quick Quotes and Tips ChatGPT Prompt: “Generate 50 different 1–3 sentence on-screen text blocks for Instagram Trial Reels. Each text block should feel like my own voice and represent quick tips, stats, short stories, blunt truths, phrases I often say, mini-anecdotes, or quotable lines I’d realistically say on camera. Tone: direct, confident, slightly opinionated, no fluff, no emojis, no hashtags, not salesy. These are standalone insights, not calls to action. Write them as if they’re pulled straight from my brain or past content—concise, scroll-stopping, and practical.” Repeatable Format ChatGPT Prompt: “Generate 50 different 1–3 sentence on-screen text blocks for Instagram Trial Reels. Each text block should feel like my own voice and ____(describe repeatable format)____ Tone: direct, confident, slightly opinionated, no fluff, no emojis, no hashtags, not salesy. These are standalone insights, not calls to action. Write them as if they’re pulled straight from my brain or past content—concise, scroll-stopping, and practical.” 💥Subscribe to the InstaClubHub Newsletter For weekly top trending audios and meme templates to help you grow on Instagram! https://instaclubhub.com/newsletter/ 🎯Check out InstaClubHub!! For $7! Plus Ultimate B-Roll Bundle https://instaclubhub.com/flash-sale-7/ 💥Related Links Checkout Metricool Use Code Brock 👉 https://metricool.com/ Checkout Canva 👉 http://Canva.com Checkout ChatGPT 👉 http://chatgpt.com 🤓Related Episode: The Future Of Social Media - 2026 Trends You NEED To Know Watch: https://youtu.be/1Ohkis7mvzM?si=OfqcOyIDHXYH-p4i Listen: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/build-your-tribe-grow-your-business-with-social-media/id910990031?i=1000741347018 Complete Guide To Growing On Instagram With Trial Reels Watch: https://youtu.be/GPfBBoroS-E?si=2ouq0pKLmWUHZsDF Listen: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/build-your-tribe-grow-your-business-with-social-media/id910990031?i=1000736087646 Connect with Brock on your fav social platform: Brock: Instagram: @Brock11Johnson TikTock: @brock11johnnson

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0:42.3	In today's episode, I'm going to walk you step by step through creating 150 trial reels
0:48.5	for Instagram in less than 15 minutes using ChatGBTBT and Canva. I want to quickly say if you're listening to the audio version of this episode,
0:56.9	I do encourage you to watch the video version on YouTube because this episode is going to be
1:01.0	quite tutorial heavy.
1:02.3	I did my best to describe what is happening so that you could at least somewhat follow
1:07.2	along, but in all honesty, it's just going to be a lot easier to consume and follow along with if you're watching on YouTube. Now, you absolutely could use the steps
1:15.1	outlined in today's episode to help you create normal Instagram reels. However, the primary
1:20.0	purpose of the flow is to create trial reels, a kind of post that is only shown to non-followers,
1:25.7	and specifically, I'm going to walk you through how you can create slight modifications of numerous posts so that they are good to go and
1:32.7	have the green light to be posted as a trial reel, but you wouldn't want to necessarily post
1:37.3	multiple slight variations of the exact same reel over and over again to your feed.
1:42.6	So again, you could use this for pretty much any kind of content, but specifically, this is going to be a great way to create a lot of trial reels in a short amount of time. If you need more of a background as to what trial reels are, why they are so effective and my strategies for getting the most out of them, I'll link a video so that you can go back and watch that because I've done a few episodes about trial reels in the past.
2:02.0	Today, we're going to really focus on creating a lot of content in a short amount of time so that you can use them for trial reels.
2:08.4	Step number one is to collect or record 50 B-roll videos of yourself.
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