Gaining Followers
Finally, after hunting down a username, filling your Instagram page with good quality content and captions, it’s time to begin the long process of finding followers.
At first, you will need to reach out to people in some way, shape or form. This means following people, liking their photos, commenting on their photos, getting your Instagram page out on different social media, and more! It will be the most time-consuming and challenging part of your journey, which is why I will make this section of the book the most detailed.
To begin this section, I want to start off by saying that it will be easier to gain followers once you already have a decent following (ten thousand people) which means that for the first bit, you’re going to be on the grind to 10k.
The fastest way and cheapest way to gain 10k followers is to start off by following people that you believe will be interested in your page. You can do this all manually, or you can use a bot, that will automatically follow people that are likely to follow your page.
First, I will explain the manual aspect of this process. If you have the time (example sitting bored in class with nothing to do) doing the following process manually will be your fastest option. In fact, if you really wanted to, you could probably gain 10k followers in a week just by manually following people.
So who do you follow?
From my experience, if you are doing everything manually, the best people to follow are the ones who have recently liked a photo. I’ll give you an example.
Let’s say you’re starting a page regarding sports cars. So, in order to gain your first followers, what you should do is find another page on Instagram (preferably with over a million followers) that posts sports car related posts. The trick is to wait until that page posts a photo. Within the first hour of the photo being posted, what you’re then going to do is follow all the people that have LIKED their new post. Follow as many of them as you can, and refresh the image constantly so that you are following LIVE users that have liked the sports car related photo within the last couple of seconds.
This is how you INSTANTLY gain followers. Because these people are live, you will be gaining followers extremely quickly.
You can also follow the other Instagram account’s followers, however from my experience, following the users that have recently liked one of their photos is the most effective way.
Hashtags
Another great way to gain followers manually is to like photos with a particular hashtag that is directly related to your page. In the case of the car page, you could use a hashtag such as “#sports car.” Go through and like all the most recently posted photos, as these pictures will have likely been posted within the last couple of minutes, giving you live Instagram users as well.
Gaining Followers Automatically
Using a Bot
Ok, so what if you don’t want to do all this manually? Let’s say you’re a little more patient, and can tolerate waiting a little longer to get your 10k followers.
Well, in that case, I’d highly recommend that you purchase a bot, that can automatically like photos, comment, and follow users. I’ve used bots to grow all of my Instagram accounts, and have never been banned once from Instagram (fingers crossed.)
If you’re going to go the bot route, I must warn you that it is possible for your Instagram account to get banned if you push the limits too much. The key is to keep the bot’s settings reasonable, so that you fly under Instagram’s radar. I also believe that Instagram isn’t looking to ban accounts that are reasonably using bots to gain exposure for their account.
In fact, most large pages on Instagram have used a bot at one point or another.
There are many Instagram bots out there, but the only one that I’ve used is called Follow liker. It works flawlessly, has constant updates, and has great customer support. I’ve never had any trouble with their services, so I’d highly recommend that if you’re going to use a bot, to use follow liker.
If you want to use a different bot for whatever reason, make sure that the developer has some sort of credibility, otherwise they can simply hack and take your account. I’ve met and know a lot of large Instagram account users who use follow liker, and they’ve never had a problem with hacks or account stealing.
Besides, after you gain around 50k followers or so, there will be no need for you to use follow liker for that certain account, unless you are going to use the bot to automatically post pictures.
Another bonus about follow liker is that you can manage multiple Instagram accounts, giving you more diversification when it comes to your niches. I want to point out that you shouldn’t run more than FIVE Instagram accounts on follow liker at a given time, otherwise you may face a ban from Instagram.
To this day, I am running five Instagram accounts with follow liker, and have had no issues whatsoever.
In terms of settings with follow liker, I keep the activity that the bot does very conservative to avoid raising red flags on Instagram. I also don’t use the “follow” and “unfollow” settings at the same time. I wait until the accounts have followed around 1500 people, and then turn off the “follow” setting, and turn on “unfollow.” I also don’t overdo it with the likes and features of the bot, instead I make all the settings very realistic.
I could cover all the settings I use with the program, however there is a fantastic instruction manual/tutorial that comes with the bot when you purchase it. If you're going to invest in one thing for your Instagram journey, I'd recommend investing in follow liker. It costs around $70.
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