How to become Instagram famous overnight? Is it possible? And let me just ask you,
do you want it? Because there's a way to get it that'll work for you and a way to
get there you want. You've got to watch the video to find out which is which so
stay tuned.
Okay, everyone's on Instagram and everyone wants to be seen on Instagram
but is it worth the time and effort that it's going to take to do that? Well, let's
go over how it happens and how it happens
authentically and real because if you ever heard me speak on social media, if
you've ever heard me on YouTube or anywhere else you know I'm all about
being real so don't be one of those guys that's you know, go ahead and buy and
click farms and go in and creating all these you know fake things, I want to
know how to find real genuine content, real genuine interaction and real
genuine followers on Instagram that don't unfollow you right away. So let's
dive in and see how it's done. Okay, so I'm going to open up my phone here, let's
take a trip over to my phone and I'm just going to show you what I've got. I've
got several Instagram accounts running, I have five up and running and that's the
max I just found out you can have on the Instagram and they're all in varying
stages of growth. Okay, so I'm just going to share with you with some different
techniques and different ideas on how to get that Instagram rolling. First, I'm
going to start off with my travel blog Instagram. I have several posts on here
that have built my following. One thing that you're going to want to remember is
what is Instagram for? It's a platform for images, right? When you go to
Instagram, that's what you see is, you see all these images and you see all these
you know, sometimes they have captions and hashtags but the primary focus of
Instagram is the imagery so if you want to be successful in Instagram, you've got
to take good photos, you've got to understand how lighting works, you've got
to understand how composition works, you've got to understand your layout and
how all of that comes together, think of your Instagram as a magazine.
You've got an ad in that magazine and if you have a magazine that's just full of
ads, it's going to get old really really fast. You've got to have good content in
there as well. So when I think of Instagram as a magazine, I'm talking
about things like this, it's kind of like a Harry Potter magazine, right. Because
you've got videos that will move and pictures that will move and this is what
I'm talking about. So you can see my my light travels blog Instagram right here,
I've got a variety of different images, I've got my layout so I've got a tip
over here and I've got a video there and I mixed my light and dark and kept kind
of my greens together, I've got another tip over here so that's kind of
positioned like in magazines so it's got a shout out box over on this side and
I've got nice greens together over here, I intentionally put these feet picture
right one on top of the other because I've got snow and one and sand and the
other, I've got some you know fun graphics in the middle here, some
personal blue stuff and I've got my travel tips
all throughout and interspersed some videos in there too. I'm not stacking
like upon, but you can kind of see the gradient, there's some browns, there's
some greens, there's some gray's, there's some blues, there's some more greens
together now we're getting into sunsets and whites and neutral tones, now we're
getting into nice heavy textures, now we're getting into more beach sceneries
so it kind of has a theme the more you go with it. I'll show you a couple
Instagram accounts to show you what I mean but the more aesthetically pleasing
your Instagram is, the more followers are going to have. I just unfollowed someone
today who in the past was posting amazing content about these Indian
weddings, they have the beautiful you know, henna on their hands and the
beautiful wedding gowns and just amazing photography and for the last three posts
that they posted, it was completely different content than was the rest of
their Instagram and when they did that, it was an unfallen for me because you
know I'm just like you, I'm picky about what's in front of me on my computer so
I'm going to make sure that I'm seeing what I want to see and when I have someone
that's not you know, keeping up with their trend or keeping up with their own
brand, that's an unfollow for me. Instagram, you
can have unlimited followers, at least I haven't found the limit yet but as a
user, you only see what you want to see and if you don't like what you're seeing
it's really super easy to unfollow, that's why you'll see your numbers even
when you're doing Instagram really well, you'll see your numbers grow and then
they'll sag a little and then they'll grow and then the sag a little and then
they'll grow and then tag a little because people will do follow for follow
and like for like and share for share and sometimes they'll unfollow you
because they got what they wanted out of you so don't be that guy, follow who you
want to follow and offer people to you know, follow you, ask good questions.
There's another tip, stay engaging on Instagram so when you're making
an Instagram post or when you're making a comment on someone else's post, be
engaging. When you're making comments in your own post, ask good questions, ask a
question that someone will respond to and don't just ask fluff questions, ask
questions you really want answers to and that will start a conversation Let me
show you what I mean. I've got a friend on Instagram, she's amazing, she's my
hairstylist, her name is Christina, she's got a really good example of this that I
want to show you. So I'm going to go over to her feed really quick and she's had her
Instagram up for a while and she is really good at striking up conversations.
Now you can see her Instagram, it's got a lot of videos, you can see that it's
very entrepreneurial, it's very hair related, she's a hair stylist so you
obviously know what you're getting into but this is the one I wanted to show you,
okay. Now this Instagram here, she's talking
about doing weaves, she's starting to do weaves and I didn't know how
controversial this was until I found her Instagram and apparently, she's got 168
comments on here and guys, not all of them are pretty so you know what, that's okay,
it's okay people start conversations on your threads. I'll show you a little bit
with the conversations that they're having here. You know, I've always wanted
to do this but people say it'll break my hair and you know these these things,
they're real conversations from real people, they're asking real questions you
know, they're being vulnerable saying hey, I've always wanted to do this or I've
always wanted to try this out or there's even some negative comments on there
that I won't repeat for the sake of this video but you know, as long as
they're not too you know, nasty, I would keep them on there because people can
have a conversation. When people see that your Instagram conversations are
happening, they'll more likely to follow you because well the guys, I got to admit
we're kind of lemmings you know and that's just human nature. Human nature is
to go to what's popular, that's why when you're driving out on the freeway and
you just bought a car and you see your car suddenly out on the freeway
everywhere, it's just your brain saying you know what, I'm looking for validation
that I made the right choice so when I see that validation and when I see
everyone gathered in an area, nothing follows a crowd like a crowd so
you're going to want to you know, went in Facebook and Instagram all of these
social media platforms, they'll see that and the users will see that. Instagram,
even as a company will see that. If your Instagram starts to get a lot of likes a
lot of comments, a lot of followers, it's going to boost you up and the bottom line
is this, social media wants you to be comfortable on social media so if
Instagram sees that something super popular, it's going to give people more of
it because people are obviously already comfortable with that. Keep that in mind
when you're growing your followers and grow in your comments, even if they're
like slamming comments. Guys, I don't know if you ever watched Miranda sings here
on YouTube, I love her channel. Love you, Miranda. But she's got a couple channels
and on one channel it's her Miranda sings you know with the giant lipstick
and all of the crazy songs and stuff and even she's got her own Netflix thing
right now, haters back off, super fun show but she's got another channel
that's just her out of character and she talks about how all of these comments
and negative things you know, they're just adding to her comments. You
should go watch the video, it's really funny but you know, there's some
language and they're so loud on the parts you need to but she's she's
quoting all these comments that got left on her page and she's like you know what,
the comments are just boosting me up so don't shy away from negative comments,
unless it's like really harassment, things like that, you're welcome to
delete that if you need to but if you've got comments on there, guys, let the
comments roll, they are super super boosting your following and they're
going to add more followers to your Facebook account. That make sense?
okay, good. On to our next point, connect existing social media accounts so an
easy way to grow your following is to go get the followers that you already have
from other accounts and you can do that easily. You can see on my Instagram
right here, I've got this little dude with the plus sign next to him. Okay,
thanks for their like. Thank you. Awesome, so I'm going to click on
that and that's going to take me to contacts, Facebook and suggested. So
Instagram again, networks a lot of the time for you so it's going to give you some
suggested contacts. Only follow them if you're really interested in following
them, guys. Be cool, be cool like that. Only follow if you really want to
follow. I don't play the follow unfollow game, it's not fun for me and it wastes
my time so I'm going to go through and see, okay, is there anyone on here that I
would like to follow or anyone that I missed, alright. I'm going to follow those
guys and then I'm going to go to Facebook, I'm going to say hey, Facebook, where's my
peeps? You know, where's the people on Facebook
that are on Instagram that I would like to follow? I'm going to go follow them. All
right and so many opportunities there, there's you know, I've got 5,000 friends
on Facebook, I'm going to leverage that platform to grow my following on
Instagram, I'm even going to share on Facebook, not with a link but just
letting people know hey, I started a new Instagram or check out this picture
from Instagram then I go to my contacts, I can connect to my contacts my phone
and get those follows starting to roll there. Now here's the tip that a lot of
people miss and when I told this tip to one of my clients, her multi-level
marketing business grew almost overnight, this was an amazing phenomenon, she made
a post on Instagram with the picture you know, sharing her product and what she
does and she typically has two new enrollees, I think she said a month
between two and five and what she had been doing is, sharing that picture
from Instagram directly to Facebook and expecting to get a lot of traffic, well
Facebook even though it owns Instagram, doesn't boost links that take people
away from Facebook so if you have a link to Instagram, even if it's just a direct
share, it's going to bury that post because it has an external link. What you need to
do instead is post a picture, I know it takes extra work, post it twice, post it
to Instagram and then post it to Facebook too independently, organically,
and when you say hey, I didn't you and do the same caption you can do the same
thing on both but then you can say at the bottom of your Facebook feed, follow
me on Instagram for more and then you can leave your Instagram handle. That's
another way to get followers and these are solid followers, I get it, you
can go to click farms and you can buy followers overnight, it'll boost your
following but are those your real clients? Maybe, maybe not, probably not,
it's from my click farm, somewhere on the other side of the world, right? So get
organic followers if you can because those are the ones that give you the
longevity, alright. Okay, let's check. Let's talk about interaction.
Interaction is king on Instagram, alright. When you're
having conversations with people, it only counts as interaction and according to
instagrams algorithms if it's 4 words or more so if you're leaving comments on
other people's posts, leave more than four words because then it will
count toward their comments in there and their boosts on
their post so you know, take care of people and they'll take care of you, just
keep the karma rolling. So if you see someone else's post in fact, let's go to
my home page. Oh look, there's a post to my other account. Yay. Cool so I've got a
couple of, oh this is cool, check out this one, travel sports.
This must be Northshore Hawaii. Let me see if it gives us, oh it doesn't give us
a location, okay, awesome, this is a super super cool image and I am loving the
degradation of the waves there and just gosh, that's neat so I gave it a like and
I'm going to actually go and give them a comment and I'm going to say something
authentic just like I said you know, just a second ago. Oh my gosh, this is an
amazing pic. Where did you shoot this? Okay.
Real comment, not just, I can't tell you how many times I see on Instagram people
say great pic, visit me or come check out my profile and I'm just like okay, I will.
I mean, that's cool but you and I aren't having a real conversation so I'm
not as interested in talking to you as you think. The most interesting thing to
anyone on this entire planet is them, it's the most interesting thing to you
in your world is you, the most interesting thing to me and my world is
me, that's just the way it is, that's the way our brain works. Back in the early
days of the telephones, when they had the operator that they had to connect you
know, one phone call to another with a real person, they attract the highest
number of most commonly said words and the most commonly said word back in
those days was the word I and my guess is it hasn't changed at all because
people love to talk about themselves so the rule of social media is be
interested in what they're interested in which is them so be interested in them,
comment on their post, ask them questions, do the same thing in your post,
I ask people questions, ask people to comment, ask people for messages you know,
send private messages to people who you're following and strike up
conversations, that's how to get those major influencers which leads me to my
next point, connect with influencers. If you know
someone that has a really great following, give them a shout out
maybe, you can do a joint collaborative, joint venture of Instagram together, when you're
there in person together or maybe you're doing a shout out with a screen shot and
saying oh my gosh. Well let's say for example I take Christina and I'm having
a really great hair day and I do a selfie or I do a video of me doing my
hair, I would do that video on Instagram, I would tag her and say
hey, thanks Christina, you're always the bomb, thanks for you know helping me out
with all of my hair needs and you know just leave her some good juju, some
really good gratitude that's real and authentic and genuine and you know what,
if she likes that, she's going to share to her page and then the people that follow
her will come see me and vice versa. You just take care of each other online
and be real and authentic and connect with those people. If you would take a
picture that you think would be awesome for National Geographic, call them out on it,
tag National Geographic in your images. If you have a picture with
someone else that you know is on Instagram, tag them in the picture,
connect, connect with people because that's what people love, people love
people so make those connections. Last thing, don't try and cheat the system.
Facebook and Instagram and Twitter and all of these social media accounts,
they're functioning and they're functioning the best for people that use
them appropriately so don't try and cheat the system, don't try and find that
the backdoor, the loophole and whatever algorithms they are. Yeah, there
are algorithms and yeah, they are very much at work but the primary platform of
YouTube, of social media, of Facebook, of Instagram, of Twitter is people
interacting with people so do that and you'll be king of social media. Okay, cool.
You got my tools, you got my hacks, you got my tricks.
Okay, Instagram is one of my favorite platforms, it is so simple so easy to use.
Keep it updated on your phone, keep your phone with you and make sure you keep
those conversations going, guys. That's really going to give you the furthest ever
in this whole game. Stay tuned for more Instagram videos and we'll see you
tomorrow.