Do you have a hard time growing your Instagram followers? Me too! I had participated in giveaways and Friday follows, but it was really hit and miss to gain followers. I was looking for a consistent plan that would work. Then, in the last 2 weeks, I’ve been working on a method that is really working for me.
The first thing I did was update my profile, so that when someone did follow me, they could see exactly what I do. I added emojis and included my metropolitan area for brands.
Then, I started following a method that I have successfully used on other social media. Immediately, it started working. Within 5 days, my followers increase by more than 500 — about 50-100 followers a day if I kept to the plan.
I started doing this at around 2400 followers a couple weekends ago. At 2585, I decided to start documenting it.
The next day I was up to here.
And the next morning…
This is my current followers, but I’ve been on vacation and stopped doing this for a few days. I just started back up last night and up 40 followers today.
Now here’s what I do:
Find a few other people who post like you do, or similar bloggers who do what do you do. Click on their “Followers” and just start following those followers. If someone is private, I undo the follow. I only follow public accounts unless it’s a friend of mine.
At one time, I’m able to follow 75. If you wait a few minutes, then you can follow another 75. I usually follow 75 about 4 times a day.
Then, every few days, I log into CrowdFire and unfollow 100-200 a day of people who I followed but never followed me back. It limits you to 100 unfollows an hour, so I stop by once in the morning and sometimes once at night.
You can also use CrowdFire to follow people as well, but on the free plan it limits 25 follows a day.
I’ve been growing a consistent following every single day. Let me know how it works for you!
Do you have any tips for Instagram?
17 comments
What a coincidence!! I just started doing this last week too! It’s been working great!
Those are some great tips! I need to really start following more people in my niche and unfollow those who are not following me.
I have not concentrated too much on this, but your steps look easy to do I will be checking this out to grow my numbers!
Omg I don’t know why I never thought of this! What a great idea!
Great Tip! Going to start doing this! Do you use any hashtags when posting these collages?
Thanks for helping out. 🙂
I use an app called “Tagsforlikes.” It will give you general popular hashtags for so many things. I’ve been told the optimum hashtags is 11 on Instagram, so I usually stick with about 11 most times. However, you can use up to 30 hashtags at a time.
I do something similar but not at the same numbers. I do get hits from IG and Twitter bc I track the links so it’s definitely worth doing.
That’s very interesting! I have been thinking about how to grow my followers list and I might give this method a try! Thanks for sharing!
I still have not started an account with Instagram. I will have to get on this and try out your suggestions.
I find this really helpful, Stephanie. I use the app Unfollowers to see which accounts aren’t following me. Like you, I don’t do private accounts as well. I should give this a try.
Thank you, this sounds very doable and something that one can do without depending on anyone else or any activity like a giveaway. I will have to give this a try.
can’t wait to try this out!
great idea. i cant wait to try this . hope my kids would love these thank you for sharing the tips
I really need to work on my Instagram followers. These are wonderful tips!
Great plan. I’ve gained over 100 since reading this yesterday!! Genius!
I would love to grow my Instagram. Thank you for the cool tips!
Have you tried using Hashatory? It helps me generate the right hashtags I can use to reach out to the like-minded individual. It helped me a lot growing my followers.