Buying Shout-outs
Purchasing shout-outs is a fantastic way to grow your Instagram account. I recommended not purchasing shout-outs until you have at least 10k followers, since your page will be more attractive once you’ve gained a following.
To purchase shout-outs, search for Instagram accounts that are in the same niche as yourself, but with more followers. Usually, they’ll leave a contact username, or an email address.
Simply ask them how much a shoutout is going to cost, and compare the prices with other accounts.
Personally, I’ve never been scammed when purchasing shout-outs, so don’t worry too much about that aspect.
You can find shout-outs for cheap on fiverr.com buy sell shout-outs, and even eBay.
What to Post for your Shout-outs Before purchasing a shoutout, you’ll want to test the picture or video on your page first, just to make sure that it’s going to be a successful post. What I like to do is take my most commented on photo and use that for my shout-outs that I’m doing with larger accounts.
For your caption, you want it to look as natural and as less spammy as possible.
For myself, my most successful captions have been something like:
“Found this hilarious vid on @funnymemes, check them out.”
It’s simple and informative. If your description is too long, people might not even bother to read it. Try to avoid captions like:
FOLLOW @FUNNYMEMES
@FUNNYMEMES
@FUNNYMEMES
@FUNNYMEMES
Honestly, everyone on Instagram does this, and I can tell you from personal experience, it doesn’t work anymore.
People just see that as spam, and will even be annoyed with your page.
Growing Your Instagram Empire
Once one of your Instagram pages begins gaining traction, you can use your following to jump start another Instagram page. I’ll give you an example.
Let’s say you have a puppy page with 100k followers. You’ve been building this page up for the last 6 months, and have decided that you’re ready to start another Instagram page. Try to keep your second Instagram page in the same niche, but make it somewhat different. If you have a puppy page where you post pictures, create a second Instagram account where you post short video clips.
This way, you can give yourself shout-outs. Eventually, once your second Instagram page has been jumpstarted, you won’t even need to give it shout-outs anymore, as it will start to grow naturally. I’ve seen an Instagram page with 500k followers grow a second Instagram page to 200k followers in less than 6 months!
You can literally use this method as a domino effect, and create an absolute empire on Instagram.
Shoutout for Shoutout
A great way to grow your Instagram following is to find accounts that have a similar number of followers as yourself.
Message them, email them, and network with them. There are many Internet marketing forums such as black hat world where you can find hundreds of Instagram users like yourself.
Building a community and a team of people on Instagram is also a fantastic way to build momentum when growing on Instagram. You’ll learn twice as fast, and will make fewer mistakes when it comes to building a large following, and maximizing your profits.
You can find "Instagrammers" on Facebook in Facebook groups, forums, YouTube, and more. Search around, collect Skype names, and talk Instagram strategy. You’ll be surprised how much you’ll learn. Set a monthly or weekly Skype meeting time, so that you get into the habit of meeting with your team, and growing your team.
From personal experience, I've gained a lot of internet marketing knowledge from simple Skype meetings. Business ideas are generated, and everyone in the group benefits immensely. The fastest way to learn, is always by talking to someone directly. Skype enables this.
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