James Greaney here from internetbizuni.com and in today's video I'm going to
show you exactly what happens when I delete my Instagram account with over
10,000 following a pretty wet day here in London as you can see behind me so
what I'm going to do now is just go inside or on my computer and show you
how all of this goes now something that I haven't told before so I'm interested
in actually seeing how it goes out that I might bug shoot a video and show it to
you about okay good I'm inside now and out of the rain so I can continue on
with this video and yeah what I'll be showing you is me exactly deleting my
Instagram account for good permanently has over 10,000 followers but what I'm
going to do is first show you my Instagram account explain to you why I
ant elite nurse why would you consider deleting an Instagram account that has
over 10,000 followers and then I'm going to actually show you me deleting the
account but I've a lot to get done so I'm just going to crack on with it now
and show you exactly how all of this plans out okay so this the Instagram
account that I've decided to delete and I've changed the username number of
different times on this account but it doesn't make any difference with me
because again it still comes back to the same things and if you just don't have
interest in producing this type of content then again you're just not going
to enjoy it you're not going to do it as much as you showed and you're not going
to get the best benefits out of it and you should definitely focus your
attention on things that you have interest in things that you actually
enjoy doing and that's what I plan to be doing and not doing the things that I
don't enjoy do or the cars when time is limited you really have to use that
resource carefully and you can't be just spending time on areas of it that you
don't really have interest in so that's why I'm going ahead and deleting it but
as you can see over the last couple of years we got to ten and a half thousand
followers so that's it just wanted to give you a quick look through my
Instagram account before closing it down so yeah just various different pictures
and yeah I've had different usernames for the account try different content
strategies and yeah some of us has worked but it's just again goes back to
what do you enjoy doing what do you get the most benefit from your time in doing
and yeah for me at this moment in time it's not Instagram okay so now that
you've seen my Instagram account you're probably thinking why would you bother
deleting it like why wouldn't you just leave it there and use it when you use
it and don't use it when you don't use it and yet the reason for that is
because I don't use Instagram like I don't enjoy using it as a platform but I
know that for business you have to be honest like most people around the world
are on Instagram so you as business owner you have to be honor to showcase
what it is that you sell whatever it is that you sell and with my brand accounts
that I have on Instagram that I'm leaving they're not my personal account
or not the one that's linked to my blog or to this YouTube channel just the
brand accounts I just hire someone to run them and they're a lot easier to
manage then when it's your own kind of account or your own blog that you're
putting out there and that's for the one simple reason that you can just hire
someone to manage the account give them a strategy to follow whether that's just
reaching out to influencers getting your products placed with influencers get
pictures off the product getting customers to send you pictures of them
using the product and showcasing that on your Instagram as well as like and I
commented on your potential customers posts and engaging with your customers
this way and that's fine and that works well when you're a business doing that
promoting your products this way but when it's your own personal type of blog
or vlog like what I do here at internet biz uni then it's a bit different but
for me I had no interest in Doudna like I just don't have interest in it as a
platform that way as using it all the time just better silence this so what I
decided to do was to get a management company that specializes in growing
Instagram accounts to manage my account for me so I just stacked my search like
any other just start searching on YouTube ways to grow your Instagram
account and yeah it just came across a few different ways and then hired
management company off recommendations at
I received just by watching YouTube videos but this turned out to be an
absolute complete disaster like at the time I'd like 2,000 followers when I
first started reaching out to management companies to manage my Instagram account
and the reason it was a disaster is because the management company that I
went with were using engagement groups to grow my follow on which again I was
okay with the strategy sounded good when I heard about us I obviously didn't know
Instagram that well as a platform but what they were saying made sense so
basically how an engagement group works is different people with different
Instagram accounts sign up to these engagement groups when you post a post
they spread it into these engagement groups and then you get load of
engagement on your post so you get comments you get likes and then
Instagram stats show on your posts to more and more people this way you post
get seen by more and more people and you pick up more and more followers it's a
very straightforward strategy to get more followers but there is a big flaw
with us and that is for the reason the majority of followers you will pick up
will be people who actually don't care about what it is you're posting they
only start following you because they're in these engagement groups and they want
you or if you have a management company they want them to engage with their
posts so that's what was happening the management company was going out
engaging with all these different posts from my account and they in return or
engaging with my posts and the data that the management company were coming back
with was looking good like I was just giving them different pictures they were
posting them for me and doing what they were doing and the data coming back was
looking good I was growing hundreds if not even thousands of followers some
weeks and yeah it just looked like what they were doing was good but it was
after a few months I didn't care about Instagram at the time so I wasn't even
looking into what was actually happening but after a few months I started looking
into what was actually happening and they have followed like two and a half
thousand people at this stage they were doing like following people on following
them in their polls commenting on that post
but I can loader the posts and stuff that they were engaging with with just
pure rubbish they were absolutely not them got to do with what I was building
here had no link to my brand whatsoever and it was actually damaging my brand
rather than making it better although it was picking up followers
it just wasn't achieving what I want to achieve which is to connect with more
business people and when I was talking to them and I just told them my concerns
on it again there their answers that they were coming back with were really
crap like they were just saying oh you've to post more content that you
know business people will engage with and you know the type of posts that they
want you to be posted at the spammy type of posts that you see out there with
flash cars flashlights type Watchers all this shit that I literally don't believe
in and that's got nothing whatsoever to do with my brand so I was never going to
post them types of posts they were saying oh these are the types of posts
you have to be posting on Instagram and we get loads of engagement on these
posts and all of this so I eventually just said no I'm not doing it I'm going
to leave you so I just stopped using them once paying them like four or five
hundred quid a month to manage my account for me and they've just done a
really shitty job and when I will go to them with concerns like that the answers
they come back with were just really shitty answers as well
Oh basically what I've learned about them sense just by watching what they
don't with my account watch what they do with other accounts it's just a real
spammy type of strategy that they use and again it's one that I actually hate
to see would never engage with yeah just have no interest in so it was a bad
decision by me to even hire them in the first place but that's what I don't so
that's where a lot of the followers that I have on my account actually came from
and that is the big problem with it even when I started managing the account
myself do not oppose myself do not my own engagement it still wasn't working
because I was still getting people that had literally no interest in what I was
post and following me and yeah my account was following them
so I just don't follow doll and then a few of them unfollowed me but more
importantly there was just no authentic engagement going on and that is the
number one reason why I have decided to close down this account and that is
because it's just it's not authentic in the way I'd like it like I love the
likes of the Facebook group that we have where you can actually ask questions
comment on posts talk back and over to other business owners where it's just
you there authentically engaging with other people I hate the whole thing on
Instagram where half the time you're not even engaging with the actual person
that owns the brand or that's there and you know that is just something that I
wasn't happy with and that's the main reason why I've decided to delete my
Instagram account and I'm going to show you me doing that just now and just on
that I'm going to shoot a video review in the company that I use to manage my
Instagram account the reason I'm going to do this is so that none of you I use
this management company because again they're just a really bad spammy type of
company and I wouldn't want any of you to use them and what they do to get
customers also isn't authentic like they have affiliates on YouTube promoting
their services and obviously getting a big affiliate Commission when they're
charging companies four and five hundred quid a month to manage their accounts
and just not doing a good job of it so what I'll be doing is putting together a
video review in their service and how they've affiliate a sign of people off
for their service and all of that but now I'm just gonna jump back on so that
you can watch me delete in my Instagram account and see exactly what happens
when you delete account with over 10,000 Instagram followers okay so now is the
time to go ahead delete my account permanently for good and to do that of
course I went to good ol reliable Google I did how to delete Instagram account
brought me to this page on this page up just click this link then this brings
you through to Instagram itself yeah the computer version of Instagram
would sorry that you'd like to delete your account if you're looking to take a
break just temporary to say blessed know looking to get rid
of it for a good out of here so yeah why are you deleting your account
too busy too distracted that's why I'm deleting it
why yeah they're gonna give me some reasons how to limit the distraction so
yeah just gonna continue on then here just gonna slap in my password now
better block this Oh once you've your password in just drop
down here click on permanently delete account boom gonna click this what's
gonna happen are you sure you want to delete your Instagram account no okay
sorry your password was incorrect please double-check your password that explains
how much I know about my used Ram account I actually don't have a tool
with my password give me a moment just gonna find this out okay so I'm just
gonna run through this again I just went got my password hopefully
it's the right one this time what was it saying - busy - okay so new
password entered pretty sure this is the one so now I'm gonna go ahead take /
normally delete my account okay and then your account has been removed we're
sorry to see you go that's it Instagram account is God no more Instagram for
this account again still be using it for a brand accounts if you're selling
physical products Instagram still amazing place to promote your products
but yeah for selling you're your own self again it's up to you whatever way
you like to do it then do it that way but it's funny as business people we're
kind of drawn in to always grow and always get more sales and that's good
that's what comes natural but when I set up this blog when I first started
producing videos on YouTube that isn't what it was about
it wasn't about selling as much offer service whether that's a coach and
service whether that's of course as possible that isn't what it was about
for me more about producing videos getting to know other brand builders and
I can do all of that through YouTube through the Facebook group that I've
created and yeah I'll leave the link down below to the Facebook group if you
want to join us in the group and it's just a great place to learn how other
brand builders hope they have enjoyed this video look
forward to speaking to you on the next one bye