I can't talk today hey everyone welcome back to my channel in today's video we
are gonna talk about Instagram okay this is nothing new for my channel but I
still feel like announcing it but today we're gonna talk about how to grow an
organic following on Instagram quickly all of these tips in this video are like
hand curated and picked and are also so helpful so stay till the end to get all
the tips now I want to give a quick disclaimer okay I have to say it number
of followers on Instagram does not matter okay there is more to life than
Instagram in social media it doesn't matter it doesn't mean you're any more
cool or popular or pretty or anything else real life is all that matters can
we just please take that in it is so important to me that you guys understand
however obviously if you have a business if you have a brand if you are trying to
grow something these tips are very helpful for that I just don't want
people to lose sight of what this really means why I'm making this video and
before we begin leave a comment down below with your Instagram handle if you
have a public account I'd love to check you guys out say hello so comment down
below your handle and without further ado let's get started
today's shout out goes to Tiffany Hampton thank you so much for watching
my videos and commenting down below all you need to do to get a shout out in my
next video is comment something down below anything although in this case I'm
saying call my Instagram handle okay tip number one is consistency I cannot
emphasize how important this is you guys and it's hilarious because I know what
to do and yeah I just don't do it I don't take my own advice it's really
terrible it is so important that you post on a regular basis I usually try to
post once a day but sometimes I don't because I'll get wrapped up in the
number of likes or comments on the previous post and I'm like no I
shouldn't it's gonna get really shitty engagement well newsflash don't get
wrapped up in that because it doesn't matter at the end of the day Instagram
wants you to be consistent wants you to post frequently something that's very
important to remember is that Instagram chooses how many people it's gonna show
your photo to based on the engagement in the first 48 hours more specifically the
engagement in the first two to three hours so really that beginning window of
when you first post that photo is that prime time to get the most engagement as
you get more and more engagement instagrams gonna say oh hey people want
to see this photo and it's there if we're gonna distribute it to way more
people's feeds and the Explo Paige as well this obviously allows more
people find you and potentially follow you so if we do some basic math the more
times you post the more chances you have to achieve this sort of engagement tip
number two is also so important this is something I've personally noticed on my
account working like a charm it's actually insane and that is to add some
sort of call to action in your captions I've always been a little bit like
cringed out at people who ask questions in every single caption but I will say
that like if you do as strategically it helps so much with your engagement
and therefore again with the engagement being really high in the first few hours
Instagram then takes your photo and distributes it elsewhere so I actually
had an example of this happen recently as you can see by this photo that I
posted obviously I look fine you know but in the caption I had people comment
down below whether they thought I was laying on a floor or sitting against a
wall I literally got so many comments and likes on this photo because
obviously people were so eager to comment what they thought and therefore
Instagram was like whoo this is getting really high engagement let's push it so
it led to it having a lot of likes and a lot of comments now we can take exhibit
B which is this Coachella photo and honestly like I'm really surprised cuz
Coachella is a very trending very relevant topic and thing that's going on
right now and yet these posts didn't do nearly as well and I think part of it is
because like in my couch and I didn't really say anything so this was just
kind of like a test for me I didn't even realize it but I noticed how much better
that one photo did where I had people comment what they thought down below
again you kind of need to be strategic because people aren't just gonna comment
like what's your favorite food and comment or I could be wrong maybe they
do I've never found that people do when I ask them like random questions where
are you from they don't really that much but just be creative with it and any way
that you can cleverly force people to comment something down below do it
because that Instagram will put your photo on more people's feeds and on the
discover and explore page and therefore will lead to more followers this leads
me to point number three which I cannot emphasize enough all of these points I
can and besides mouth especially this one because I feel like this is
something I am terrible at stop posting what isn't working okay for example
above I learned that it's better to have a call to action in your captions
so stop posting photos don't have a call-to-action right so do
the same kind of thing on your profile post post post post post don't be so
critical of what you're posting if the lighting is perfect ya know just post
because it's better than not posting it all and see what does well and what
doesn't well and when you find something that does well keep doing it and when
you find something that doesn't do well stop doing it okay
it seems self explanatory but honestly people just keep posting things that
aren't working over and over and over and me included and then nothing's gonna
change tip number four is to use an automated engagement tools such as
explode social which I use if you guys saw my last Instagram hacks video I went
into depth on what this service is I will link that up here in the I if you
want to check that out but as I mentioned it's an Instagram automated
engagement tool that increases your number of likes comments followers etc
and they are all like real people real comments real engagement so I'm gonna
kind of explain this a little bit just so that you guys know and understand
like how this works and that it's nothing sketchy or weird I'm always
skeptical of things like this and I want you to know I would never ever ever
promote something that was like weird or suck in any way this is completely legit
I've been using it for like over a year now on my business profiles on companies
profiles that I work with with consulting and it seriously works like a
charm it grows your following instantly and
consistently so basically what you do when you sign up and by the way there's
a link down below you can sign up it's a three day trial and you can get 10% off
using the code af10 but I will get there so basically when you get in there you
can target by location and by username so what this means what I have mine do
is I wrote down all these usernames of accounts that are similar to mine so
like other influencers and creators female like around my age so by me
putting in those usernames it's targeting the followers of those
accounts because if those followers are interested in them they will probably be
interested in me so then when it does is I can decide and set whether I want it
to follow people comment on people's photos or like people's posts right now
I just have it set to liking people's posts because I feel really bad about
like following and unfollowing like I don't want to do that I think that's
kind of like rude it does really work it does help I will say so it's really good
for businesses and stuff like that where they probably won't care as much but
since I am a personal brand and I obviously like care about my followers I
don't want to just be like following and unfollowing them same with the comments
I'm a little bit scared about backs it's not really
it's like me riding it but I don't want it to be like some really sad post and
then my comment is like awesome because then I just look like it full so the
reason that I have it set to liking people's photos is because you guys
seriously I care about you so much I care about my followers in my audience
and I wish that I could spend hours every single day engaging with you guys
and the reality of it is I just don't have the time to do that so it's awesome
about this is that it'll go in and automatically engage with people and
then all get a bunch of messages from people saying like oh my god thank you
for liking my photo and I can actually chat with you guys and it's it's me
actually finding people who I think will like my content and me being able to
then organically actually engage with them so it's like doing that work at
first bringing those people to me and then I can talk to them and I can like
you know engage with them back and they can engage with me and it's this whole
thing that honestly I just love because I wish that I could engage with everyone
and I can't so I love that aspect of it I have seen my following grow
tremendously because of it so if you guys want to try this out it's really
good for businesses personal brands it's also good for people just normal like
personal accounts - it definitely grows it like hands down 100% like total
guarantee you just have to kind of mess with the settings until you figure out
what works the best for you so if you guys want to test it out the link will
be down below and I do have a promo code for 10% off I literally purchased this
plan and have had it for like over a year so I basically hit them up like yo
can I get a promo code for my followers because honestly I make videos about
Instagram and you guys are going to love this tip number five is for if you don't
do this what you're gonna need to do then is go in and spend like half an
hour to an hour a day actually engaging live with those types of people so again
like target people that are similar to you and like target their followers like
photos comments on as much stuff as you can and follow as many people as you can
it does take a long time it's like very time-consuming but it does work it does
do the job people genuinely want to like show you love back and you will gain
followers from that tip number six is to not just post photos Instagram lately is
all over the video grind they want to become this next video platform because
they're owned by Facebook Facebook is doing this huge video push so they are
definitely favoring people on Instagram who posts a combination of photos
carousel post video posts on your feed and also stories also people going live
I don't go live that often I think I probably should even just like
once a week or a couple times a month really helps but definitely post video
if you can post photos videos carousels do all of it I think it really helps for
the algorithm so we tip number seven is to be verified on Instagram now
obviously this is like easier said than done you can't just go around and get
verified but in my last ID hacks video I also talked about all the different ways
in which you can attempt to get verified so if you want to check that out in more
detail I'll link it down below of course if you get verified it just gives you a
little bit of added credibility some street cred z' if you will because
people see your profile and see that your verified and your instantly a
little bit more curious as like who you are what you do why are you verified so
here is the obvious way that I know how to request verification it still hasn't
worked for me sad day but you can do it so basically if you go into your account
settings and then if you click on account you will see a little button
that says request verification you basically click on that and then I think
it just makes you upload a photo of your driver's license or some sort of photo
ID put your full name in what category your account is and then you push send
that's how you verify it it'll let you know if it was successful or not I'm not
been successful with it yes there are several other ways you can attempt but
there in my last video so I won't go into those again but obviously
verification would be huge in terms of like getting people to follow you tip
number is to keep hashtags to a minimum I think there's like a misconception
that you really should put like 30 hashtags I worry that that's actually
not the move I think that there are different speculation about this I don't
think it's the move because a it just kind of makes you outwardly look like
I'm trying to get all these followers but also I have heard things about
Instagram doing like a shadow ban and just like thinking your account is like
spammy a little bit because you have so many hashtags
I recommend usually doing like one to three because it just like looks better
in your caption like people aren't turned off by it but also you could do
like five to seven so here's a really good way to find out which hashtags to
use because I also think a lot of people just really incorrectly hashtag they
just put random crap and that's not the way to go okay if you go into Instagram
and you search a word so let's say Coachella because I was just there and
then click on tags click on that first tag Coachella as you'll notice right
here it says related and it has other hashtags these are the next like biggest
hashtags for Coachella so I would just pull from these obviously the ones that
are relevant like if you're not posting a picture of your outfit maybe don't put
Coachella outfit but or kind of how you find them and of
course if you click on another one it'll do the same thing so these are all like
that good outfit hashtag so that's how I would find the hashtags that you guys
want to use sorry tip number nine is pretty self-explanatory but post
interesting photos you guys again like I said earlier don't get so caught up in
photo having to be perfect that you don't post at all but if you are good at
being consistent try to post some creative interesting photos when people
are scrolling through you want people to stop and really look at your photo and
make them like question it or be intrigued by it or have it be something
interesting enough to kind of stop people in their tracks and click on your
profile and want to see more um this is like a pretty simple tip but it really
can make a difference and tip number ten finally is to care about your audience
care about your followers if you guys don't go in and respond to every comment
and favor every comment it's kind of like why should they follow you like
it's a social media platform meaning it is for social sake it is for engaging
and interacting with other people of course if you get thousands of comments
like of course you can't respond to every comment but if that's not you I
highly recommend responding to every single comment favoriting every comment
not only does that increase the engagement on the photo because it's
actually getting more comments but they actually feel like really special and
loved and they will comment on more photos and maybe tell their friends
about you like it's this trickle effect that you can't even see you might think
oh it's pointless that I'm doing this no not at all so care about your audience
if you don't care about your audience why are you doing social media that's
honestly my question like it's not about you it's about the followers about
keeping content to the followers so those are my tips I hope you guys
enjoyed it be sure to check out my last Instagram hacks video and remember the
link to explode social is down below and again remember you guys don't take this
too seriously don't take Instagram too seriously of course if it's your
business and your job like take it seriously like I fully understand but
just you know don't get too wrapped up and like the number of followers you
have it doesn't matter at the end of the day it just matters who really is in
your life who loves you and all that but you know that I don't need to even say
so thank you guys for watching this video please please please give it a
thumbs up comment anything if you can my channel is like in a weird rut right now
and I'm really trying to revive it hashtag revive Adrienne's channel so I
love you guys and I'll see you in my next video bye