1. The 5 Tricks That Actually Grow
Instagram Accounts Fast
With over 1 billion monthly users Instagram is now the world’s third-largest social
media platform. As much as we use Instagram to connect with friends and post
photos from our lives, it has also become a great way to grow your business.
Whether you are an influencer, brand manager, or business owner Instagram is
now a great option for you to grow a following.
Although it is everyone’s goal to grow their Instagram account fast, it isn’t an
easy task. According to Mention, 52.35% of Instagram followers have less than
1,000 followers. The next largest segment is 1,001 -10,000 followers at 37.41%
of Instagram users. In total, less than 10% of Instagram accounts have more
than 10k followers.
Now, there are a lot of pages that claim to help you grow your Instagram account
fast, but the advice they offer is generic. They will say things like,
● “Use geolocation on your posts.”
● “Partner with another brand”
● “Start a branded hashtag”
While some of these can work, for most people starting out this doesn’t help at
all. How many new accounts can attribute a mass follower growth due to tagging
Denver Colorado on their Instagram post? Or how many new accounts can work
with huge brands in their space completely for free? I don’t know of any. Like all
things, there is a hierarchy of what works and what doesn’t. We are here to
provide only the best tricks out there that actually grow Instagram accounts fast.
In this post, we will cover 9 actionable strategies that actually work to grow
your Instagram account. These are the same strategies that all the major
Instagram agencies use to grow their client’s Instagram account rapidly. Whether
2. you are a business account, a personal account, or a theme page, all of the tricks
provided here will help you build a massive Instagram following fast.
1. Have A Great Instagram Theme Aesthetic
This is step one when it comes to building out your Instagram page. Your
Instagram aesthetic is going to be the first thing people see when coming onto
your Instagram page. Having a consistent feed that uses the same colors and
theme may oftentimes be the deciding factor on whether someone will follow you
or not.
How many times have you seen a page and saw some posts are selfies, others
are infographics, and others are videos of cats and you have no clue what’s
going on? Now, how many of those pages did you follow? Probably not too
many.
Having a great Instagram theme is one of the easiest things you can take control
of today that can help the overall social proof of your Instagram page. So, how do
you create a great Instagram page?
Well, this will vary depending on what type of Instagram page you have. If you
have a business account your theme will probably be centered around your
product. Click here to see some great business Instagram pages and their
layouts.
If you don’t create your own content and you just repost the content of others,
this is fairly simple. Your Instagram may not have all the same colors but your
content will follow the same theme. If your Instagram page reposts motivational
quotes, you shouldn’t have photos of your food. Check out how we post content
on our page.
3. As you can tell, our theme is simple. We only use three colors and have the
same background every time. In the middle of our feed, we have quotes from
successful individuals and on the side, we have general business knowledge.
If you want a list of various Instagram themes you can check out this post by Fun
Life Crisis. They provide 45 great Instagram themes that you can use and walk
you through how to implement them.
2. Have A Posting Schedule
It’s no secret that Instagram wants to promote pages that post consistently. The
question is, “What is consistent?” At a minimum, if you seriously want to grow
your Instagram account fast, you should be posing at least once a day. It is more
important the bigger you get the more you post but in the early stages, under
1,000 followers, you should never miss a day of posting.
Now this will change depending on if you are an Instagram theme page or
personal page. If you are a personal account it is okay to go as low as three
times a week. However, if you are an Instagram theme page, let’s say you post
cute kitten videos, you should never ever miss a day.
The reason why you want to post so consistently is that it gives you that
many more chances of having a post go viral. By viral, we mean it can either
show up on Instagram explore page or Instagram’s Top page. The explore page
appears on the same page as the search function. The Top page for hashtags
shows some of the most popular posts tagged with that hashtag. See our visual
of each.
Being on either page allows you to grow your Instagram followers fast. Think
about it like you were playing the lottery. You increase your chances of winning
4. the lottery the more tickets you buy. In this scenario, consider your post to be like
lottery tickets. The more you have the more likely you will win.
In the hashtag portion of this post, we will talk more about what types of hashtags
to use in order to have your content go viral. But for now, you should get really
serious about making sure you’re posting at least once a day. If you are a
personal account, no less than three times a week.
The best way to follow a consistent posting schedule is to create a schedule and
use a bot that posts for you. We personally use Later as our tool of choice.
Instagram only allows the use of certain bots and will punish your account if you
use bots that aren’t part of their Instagram Partner Program.
Later has been accepted in the program and allows users to preview posts,
schedule posts, and do hashtag research. You can post up to 30 pieces of
content a month for free through their website so it’s a very easy way to get
started.
Does It Matter When I Post
It used to matter what time you posted to Instagram. That’s because Instagram
used to show your posts to your followers in the order in which they were
uploaded. So if you posted at 6:00 pm and someone else posted at 6:03, your
followers would see the 6:03 post before yours because it is more recent.
However, Instagram has changed the way they show posts to followers. They no
longer show posts to followers based on when they were posted. The order
of photos in someone’s feed is based on the likelihood that they would be
interested in the content. The way Instagram gauges interest is by analyzing
the user’s current relationship with the Instagram account. If someone is
frequently commenting on your posts, liking your posts, and visiting your profile,
Instagram will show them your post regardless if it was posted 10 minutes ago or
10 hours ago.
5. This is why it’s really important to create engagement with your followers. We will
talk about how to do this later in this post. But just remember that the key to
someone seeing your post is how much they engage with your profile.
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4. Always Have An Instagram Story [With Stickers]
Having the red circle around your Instagram logo is essential to establish
credibility among potential followers. The red circle around your Instagram
logo indicates that you have an active story.
When someone first comes to your Instagram page they cannot see the last time
you posted. They would have to click into an image to see that. Having the red
icon above your logo notifies the potential follower that you have been on the
platform at least within the past 24 hours. If you weren’t, you wouldn’t have been
able to post a story.
What To Post In Your Instagram Stories
6. Now that you know it’s important to have stories, you may be wondering what
exactly to post? No need to overthink this. If you are a theme page and you are
posting everyday one of the easiest things you can do is just reshare your post
on your story. Add some text above the story that says, “new post,” and add an
arrow pointing to your post. See our video below on how you can create an
engaging Instagram story in just one minute.
As you can see we used a lot of stickers in this post and did two unique things.
We used three big hashtags and covered it with the sticker, “New Post.” We did
this because Instagram allows you to use up to three hashtags in your story. You
can add more but Instagram will only register the first 3. Having hashtags can
look spammy at times so it’s best to cover these up with a sticker.
The reason we used a big hashtag is that stories disappear in 24 hours. So if you
use small hashtags, yes it is more likely to be found, but there isn’t enough traffic
to smaller hashtags that can be received in just 24 hours. That’s why it’s best to
use bigger ones and hope you get lucky.
We also put a big pointing gif over our text. The reason we did that is because if
someone is interested in the title of the post, they will likely click into the post to
read the text. Remember, Instagram shows your content to people who
engage with your post. If we just posted that story, people could read it without
clicking into it. But we want to maximize as many post interactions that we can,
which is why we make them click into the post to read it.
Using Instagram Interactive Stickers To Grow Fast
One strategy we found works very well is using Instagram interactive stickers. If
you have ever seen a poll, quiz, or a story that says “ask me questions” you’ve
seen an interactive sticker. These elements were introduced by Instagram to help
users engage with their followers.
7. You will hear in a lot of videos and blog posts that the best way to increase
engagement is by commenting and liking your follower’s posts. While this is a
good strategy, it is very time-consuming. Instead of going out and engaging with
your follower’s posts, give them an opportunity to engage with you.
By having a quiz or a poll on your Instagram stories you can allow your followers
to engage with your post. We try to post a new Instagram quiz every single day.
Take a look at some of the quizzes we post.
This not only gives our followers something to look forward to, but it also allows
them to engage with us on a daily basis. Guess what happens every time we
post? The people that we see engage with our stories are the first ones to like
our post.
5. Work With Micro-Influencers To Reach A Larger
Audience
The keyword here is “micro.” If you are trying to grow your motivational speaking
brand through Instagram, do not reach out to Tony Robbins asking him to shout
out your Instagram page. Not that he doesn’t want to support you, he just doesn’t
have the time. He also probably doesn’t even manage his own Instagram page at
that.
The trick to getting influencers to give your post a shout-out is finding
those below a hundred thousand followers but over ten thousand
followers. Within this range, accounts are big enough to have a decent
following, but not so large that they’re going to charge large sums of money for a
shout out.
8. One thing you’re going to want to be looking for when deciding which micro-
influencers to work with is their engagement rate. The way you can calculate this
is to look at how many followers they have and look at how many likes they
receive on each post. You want to find people with an engagement rate of at
least 10%.
If they have 10,000 followers they should be getting at least a thousand likes on
their post. Anything less shows that they don’t have an engaged following.
Once you found an Instagram influencer that you want to work with, DM them
and ask them how much for an advertisement. The rates will vary depending on
which niche you’re in. The best way to figure out a good price is to reach out to
multiple influencers and see what the average costs are.
However, if you’re going after someone under a hundred thousand followers it
should never cost you more than twenty bucks for them to repost your content
onto their page.
Allow Them To Give Away Something Of Yours To Get More
Followers
A common question we get is, “Can I work with micro-influencers for free?”
Usually, the answer is no. Listen, if someone put in the effort to build a big
following it makes that they wouldn’t want to give it away for free. However, if
you’re going to ask them to give you anything for free you have to come at it with
this mindset: What can I give them that is 10 times more valuable than what I’m
asking of them?
Most people won’t do things for you out of the goodness of their hearts. But they
will do something if there is an incentive for them to do so. Do you have an ebook
that you charge for that you will give away for free to their followers? Will you
offer a free consultation to their followers if they let you post something on their
page?
9. Giveaways are great but they usually only work for Instagram pages that have an
established following. By letting them use one of your products or services you
can let them offer something to their audience which helps them build
engagement while also helping you get more followers. This can be seen as a
win-win scenario for both parties. Just make sure that you are providing more
value to them than you are asking to receive.