- In this video I'm gonna share
my experience with an Instagram growth service.
How did it make me feel before using it?
Was it worth it?
Would I recommend it?
We'll get into all of that right now.
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My name is Jerry Potter,
yes, it rhymes with a boy wizard,
and in this video I am sharing my experience
with an Instagram growth service.
Now nothing beats real, genuine engagement on Instagram
So the whole idea of "mimicking" engagement
with a service made me feel a little weird
from the beginning.
But there was more and more pressure from my clients
looking for faster growth on Instagram.
On Facebook, you can sort of buy your way
into genuine growth, but with Instagram
it's a little bit more tricky.
So what is an Instagram growth service?
Well, it's a service designed
to grow your Instagram account, obviously,
but there's a whole range of 'em.
There are some that use really spammy tactics
often known as bots, that'll follow and unfollow
or maybe buy followers overseas,
and you can end up with a bunch of followers
that are nowhere near your ideal client or customer,
so it was a total waste of time.
Then there are other services
that mimic actual human engagement
to try and bring you your ideal customer.
They're not going to necessarily grow the numbers as fast,
but potentially with bring your business way more growth.
So when it came to choosing an Instagram growth service
that I wanted to test, I wanted to find one
that was going to mimic real engagement.
In other words, it was gonna do
what I might do with more free time.
If you've every gotten a comment on a video on Instagram
that said "great pic!"
(chuckles)
Obviously that's a bot, not an actual human.
So I didn't want to deal with anything
sketchy feeling like that.
I also didn't want any service that was gonna
play the follow unfollow game,
And the way those work
is they will go and use your account
to follow a bunch of other accounts on Instagram
and then they will unfollow a few days later,
hoping that the person you followed, followed you back
and then over time you have all these followers
but you're not following as many people.
Don't like that technique at all.
So after some research I found a service
that will target your potential ideal customer or client
and all they do is go through and like a couple of posts,
sort of attracting attention to your profile.
They never leave comments,
and they never follow anybody.
The idea is, you like a couple of posts,
maybe that person checks out your profile and goes
"Oh this person sounds interesting"
And they will hopefully follow you.
Now my Instagram profile is pretty well optimized
so that if you are a potential customer
or client of mine, you'll hopefully read it and say
"Oh yeah, I'll wanna follow him for more information".
So, I liked the idea of that, and I liked the fact that
this is something that I would do if I had more spare time.
Now to set up this particular service,
you can target people three different ways.
One, you can target people based on the hashtag.
So a lot of my clients and customers
are small business owners
so one hashtag that I targeted
was anyone using the hashtag "solopreneur".
You can also target people that follow certain other brands.
So let's say you were a fitness instructor
you might target people who follow
other popular fitness instructors
so that you are getting your same ideal customer.
And finally, this is great-
you can target actual locations.
So if you are a local business
and your clients or customers are in a certain area,
you could target anyone who is posting
in your local area.
Once your all set up, each day the service will go through
and it would like a couple of photos
of all of the people that you had decided to target.
There are different tiers of packages,
and the more you spend, the more targets you can have.
This particular service will also track
how well your targets are preforming.
So for example, if you had one target,
and every time they liked a photo
20% of the people whose photos they liked
came back to follow you,
that one would be working really well.
But, if on another target,
every time they liked a couple persons' photos
only 1% of the people came back and followed you
or nobody, that would not work well.
Also over time, it will tell you if a target is depleted.
Like, "hey, we've pretty much scraped
the bottom of the barrel for this particular target"
and then you can shut that off,
and replace it with a new target.
So how did it work out for me?
Well, I used the service for about three months,
and in that time, I gained 400 followers.
Now, if you log into the account
it'll actually say I gained 718 followers in that time
but they are counting every new follower you gained,
I only count the ones that I was left with
after people unfollowed.
I get people following and unfollowing
different bots all the time,
so I didn't find that 718 number very valuable,
I thought 400 was a much more accurate representation.
Now the service I used, along with most of these services
say if you post regularly, you're gonna get better results.
I post semi-regularly on Instagram,
it's just not a huge priority for my business
right now compared to other platforms.
But if you are super regular on Instagram,
you might get better results.
After the end of testing it for three months
I didn't continue the service
because Instagram is not a priority for my business
but I was impressed that I was able
to grow faster utilizing it.
So, if it's something you'd like to check out
they don't have any free trials,
but they are offering
members of Five Minutes Social Media's community
20% off- just use the code "FMSM"
They do offer a 14 day money back guarantee.
They do believe in their service that much.
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