I turn views into followers,
mine and yours.
I'm Maria. Five years in finance, three and a half years on Bookstagram, most of them spent doing it wrong.
Five years in finance before any of this. Three and a half years on Bookstagram, most of them spent doing it wrong.
I ran Instagram, TikTok, and BookTube at once. Writing reviews, editing yapping videos that ate whole evenings, trying to be everywhere. I'd get home from my finance job, sit down at 7pm, and just be done. Cooked. And I'd still open the editor and cut reels I didn't have the energy for, that went nowhere anyway.
By 2025 I was stuck at 5K. Not slowly climbing. Actually losing traction some months. I tried everything. Nothing moved.
Then one carousel, in November, hit 80K views and brought in 350 followers in a few days. Three years on this platform, and that was the first time anything had actually moved like that.
That's when it hit me: the skill was never the reviews or the yapping. It was the system underneath, hooks, testing, what to double down on. So I stopped guessing and built it properly.
The finance background isn't a throwaway line either. I don't just look at numbers and shrug, I translate them, marketing numbers into words, and tell you what to actually do next. That's why Consultation exists too, most people can see their content and their sales as two separate things. I cross-reference them, so you can see what's actually connected.
Everything here has been run on my own account first, before I ever taught it to anyone else.
If you've been stuck on Bookstagram too? I know exactly what that feels like.
Want the field notes? I send the occasional letter with what's actually working on my account this month. No fluff, no schedule I can't keep.
Four working rules
Test, then trust
Nothing goes on the grid until it has been put in front of people who don't follow me yet.
Shares, not saves
A save is a bookmark. A share is a person handing your account to someone else. Growth follows the second one.
Numbers first
Five years in finance means I read the account as a funnel with leaks, then translate that into what to post.
One evening, not every evening
If a system needs your whole week, it isn't a system. It's a second job you didn't apply for.