The Best Way to Build a Brand on Instagram and Get Followers? Advice Given and Advice Needed.

Instagram has increased our customer conversion rate by over 30%. Not to mention growing our email list by the thousands.

Here are some online tools you can use to grow your Instagram rapidly.

Instagress.com will allow you to target which type of images or followers you want to engage with. 1. Like photos for you based on the hashtags of your choice. 2. Follow users of other accounts of your choice (allowing you to gain targeted followers that will be interested in your content) 3. Comment on other photos (#'s of your choice) 4. Unfollow users - starting with those don't follow you back.

However all these tools are not the key to maintaining an engaged page.

By having a real community that is engaged in your content you can then begin to recommend products/advice/services and turn it into a money making machine.

1.) Generate content your customers like The first step is to get more followers on Instagram is to generate the right content. This might seem obvious, but we always see it get neglected. Find out what your customers enjoy seeing on Instagram or what themes resonates with them, and populate your account with relevant images.

2.) Engagement On Instagram, engagement is king. For best results use images which trigger an emotion or questions that elicit some thought work really well.

  1. Post Regularly Aim to post on a regular basis, somewhere between once every three to four hours. However, don’t bulk post a whole bunch of photos in one sitting; users will often regard this as spam and unfollow you. Think of it like sowing seeds, you don’t want to just plug all your seeds into one hole in one go; you want to spread them out.

  2. Use #s Hashtags might just seem like something that annoying teenaged girls say, but that’s not quite true. Hashtags are a way for viewers to navigate easily to topics they’re interested in. Attaching #hashtag(s) to your image therefore enables your content to be found easier by those who don’t already follow you.

  3. Follow others In one of our previous posts, we stated that one of the keys of content marketing came down to copying others. When it comes to Instagram marketing, it is no different and with the right tools, we can copy even the users another brand has. In order to help us do this, we found this super cool, super powerful tool called ‘Crowdfire’.

  4. Network Networking can create wonders, not only in real life, but also in the social media sphere. There are accounts on Instagram that will do a “share for a share”, allowing your content to make an appearance on other pages if you do the same. Do a quick hunt for these pages in your industry (they aren’t hard to find), and get in touch.

  5. Shoutouts Lastly, we spent about $100 paying for shoutouts from other popular accounts. Research on the popular accounts that are relevant in your field, reach out to them to see if they’ll be willing to do a shoutout for you, and how much that will cost. This will let you gain access to larger networks that you previously might have not had access to before. Everyone speaks via an app called ‘Kik’ or ‘Groupme’. It’s strange we know, but this is the place where deals go down.

If you want to know more about how to increase followers massively through organic growth as well as how to grow an engaged, pumping instagram page, check out this article:

10,000 Instagram Followers in 2 Weeks: A Guide on How to Get More Followers on Instagram - Foundr

Good luck!

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